The New York Post ran a story yesterday headlined, “Target Loses $9B in Week Following Boycott Calls Over LGBTQ-Friendly Kids Clothing.”
Well that was fast!
The story broke early this week. Targets across the nation had been stocked and decorated preparing for so-called “Target Pride Month,” which is the store’s month-long gala, not just accepting but celebrating and encouraging atypical sexual behavior. But Target’s Pride Month activities annoyed lots of its customers, who’d just gotten over the retailer’s last woke-splosion: its attempt two years two to force shoppers into genderless bathrooms, giving ladies no option but sharing their intimate personal spaces with hairy, bearded, voyeuristic fat men wearing colorful strappy dresses and sandals.
Although it’s only been about a week, and although Target took some items offline and moved some store merchandise around in southern states, Target’s sales have plunged, and its stock has plummeted about $9B in total value.
You know, it used to be kind of difficult to get conservatives on board for boycotts, for a host of reasons, but — like a Clydesdale-led miracle — the phony Anheuser-Busch beer company and its hypomanic spokesman-slash-girl seem to have taught our folks how to do it.
It wasn’t so much that Target was pushing atypical, gay sexual choices on everybody. True, that’s pretty annoying, because most of us don’t feel like having divergent mating practices shoved in our faces while we’re shopping for a new toaster oven. But that wasn’t the real problem. The real problem was Target aiming the gay progaganda at children, and for promoting Target’s newest spokesman, the Lord of Evil, the Great Serpent: Satan.
I’m going to carefully explain all this, even though I think no explanation is necessary, but for the people who still aren’t sure what Target did wrong.
Number one, kids don’t need to know about gay sex. Period. Nobody needs rainbow-colored onesies, pajamas, or swim diapers. A dispute arose about whether Target was actually selling youth-sized swimsuits labeled “tuck-friendly,” or whether they were just for adults. But that argument misses the point. Whether the items were in the kids’ section to start with, or were kept in the adult section marked “extra-small,” alert moms — whose protective instincts are set on ‘high’ — knew exactly what Target was really up to.
Activists will argue that kids SHOULD be groomed into accepting other gay kids, so that the gay kids will feel accepted and not suicidal. It’s a dumb argument, a manipulative emotional soundbite, but we don’t have to argue about that. Even if it were true: THAT IS NOT TARGET’S JOB.
Stay away from the kids, Target! (And anyway, it’s NOT true.)
A second problem for a lot of people was the Satanism. You don’t have to be religious to understand the problem, and I’ll tackle it from a secular perspective. But obviously, Christians will always have a pretty big problem with anything that celebrates the Prince of Lies, the destroyer of life, the literal manifestation of evil, whose own original sin, not coincidentally, was “Pride,” because he equated himself with the Most High.
Before about ten minutes ago, when our Judeo-Christian culture apparently shot past its expiration date, being linked to Satan in any way was career suicide.
But nowadays, according to Target and its newest designer Abpallen, Satan loves trans people.
The Abprallen designs, sold in Target stores, conflate LGBTQ with Satanism
Forget about the Christians versus the atheists. The Satanists offer a third way: they’re not ‘worshipping’ Satan, not exactly, they’re only going through the motions because they want to show everyone how silly they think ALL religions are. All religions except, of course, their own non-religion religious tradition. It’s a NEW kind of Satanism, not that old blood-drinking, orgy holding, child-sacrificing kind. It’s a “Neo-Satanism.”
Neo-Satanism’s devil-may-care followers say they are proudly anti-religious, or if you will, proudly irreligious. Proudly blasphemous, in other words. And gay.
It guess it IS a cult, after all
But does this this silly excuse that Neo-Satanism is a “non-religion” make any sense? Even if they’re not being deceitful; even if they really DO offer a secular, logic-driven, intellectual, atheistic alternative to religion, if still doesn’t work. If that were true, why would they pick the most despised, most hated and feared symbol in human history as the name for their non-religion?
First, think about it this way: If it would be crazy to name your brand-new secular religion after that devil Adolph Hitler, why is it less crazy to pick literal Satan?
In other words, regardless of whether the Devil exists or not, why align themselves with everything that Satan REPRESENTS?
In other words, ’Satan’ comes with baggage, thousands of years’ worth of baggage, baggage in the form of near-infinite awful imagery, the worst possible P.R., and don’t forget, he is completely triggering for Christians, Muslims, and even agnostics and ‘white witches.’ The Neo-Satanist project to ‘reimagine’ Satan as a free-thinking role model is lunacy, a Sisyphean task if ever there were one.
So, why take on all that baggage? And, why would they confusingly recycle the name of an existing religion, the religion of devil worship, instead of coming up with a new name for their new non-religion? Why not just name their atheist non-religion after Charles Darwin or Albert Einstein or something? And … they sure use a lot of religious imagery for a strictly science-based group.
Unsurprisingly, Neo-Satanic themes encourage violence. The guillotine is a reference to the Antichrist who, according to the Bible, in the Last Days will behead folks who refuse to take the Mark of the Beast. A lovely image! But not science.
Only two alternatives make any sense. Either Neo-Satanists are lying — and they WOULD lie, wouldn’t they? — and they really are just dollied-up regular Satanists who do worship Evil, or they are deliberately triggering believers, on purpose, to make some kind of a point, and are not actually peacefully minding their own business like they claim they are.
Satan is not harmless. Not even if he’s only a concept. Satan is not cute. Satan is an insidious viper, hated and despised by billions, who has fully earned being chained in infinite darkness for 1,000 years following which he will be unceremoniously chucked into a lake of fire.
Most sane people, religious or not, don’t want retailers of cheap, mass-manufactured, Chinese products peddling Satan to their kids as a goofy cartoon figure.
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