>> Tonight growing scrutiny on
target after the retail chain
announced it is pulling some
products that represent pride
month.
Reasons that there are concerns
over employee safety.
The company told the wall
Street journal that over the
month of June, it is receive
some criticism but is taking a
more aggressive turn this year.
Quote, people of confronted
workers in stores.
Knock down private March
displays.
Turkey has not specified what
products they will be removing
but many right-wing activists
have focused their criticism on
a transgender family swimsuit
that online commentators
incorrectly believed was being
marketed to children.
The company now joins a growing
list of companies like what,
Disney bud light and north face
caught up in these partisan
culture wars.
My panel is back with me.
Target is saying that they are
doing this because it is a
safety situation.
And I think that they are
sympathetic of that.
They didn't sign up to work at
a target to get up in the
cultural wars.
But lgbtq activists say that
this is a critical moment in
the snow is backing down.
Here's a comment from Sarah
Kate Ellis the president and
CEO of glad saying that lgbtq
violence and hate should not be
winning in America.
But it will continue until
corporate leaders step as the
heroes for lgbtq employees and
do not cave to activists
calling for censorship.
What do you say?
>> She is right.
You cannot let the haters when
this kind of thing.
They also represent a very
small minority of American
public.
Target has 1900 stores across
America.
If you go back and look at the
marketing research, their
average user is a 35 to 44 year
old white suburban mom who
makes $80,000 a year.
Has some, college may be a four
year degree.
70% of Americans support
marriage quality.
Those Americans tend to align
with Democrats.
Tend to align with a more
Progressive cause.
So for them to take this,
position I think they don't
understand the market and are
going to pay a cost on the
other side.
With a lot of voters, now
they're looking at companies in
their social policies.
Not just where they stand on
products they have.
This will be a problem for
target on the other side of it.
>> Can I ask you about this,
because I don't think you can
really separate this from the
broader conversation we are
having about culture war really
means.
But we are really talking about
human beings.
Here people who are lgbtq
people, they live in this
country over the past couple of
decades.
Fought for basic rights.
And you have a lot of activists
on the right basically saying
that the idea here, according
to one who tweeted today, is to
make pride talks for brands.
To make cultural exceptions for
lgbtq people unacceptable. Is
that where this is headed on
the right? >> Will, I certainly
don't speak for the right on
this kind of thing. My view of
it is, if we are going to be
over the last 5-10 years as
Republicans, we've witnessed
this effort to cancel some of
our views, and they've been
pretty successful. People
losing their jobs, companies
going under under -- and then
try to do the same to the other
side. And I think what is
happening here is that there
was, with the bud light
situation, that was successful,
but I think it was successful
in a vacuum, because bud light,
their target market are folks
that are not necessarily
aligned with Dylan Mulvey knee.
On target, people that are
going into your targets on your
point, on a marketing side of
thing, them -- target has had
this display for a number of
years, and it really was --
aspect of it. And, that is a
different story in a sense. But
I do think it was a mistake for
target to come back like this,
because here's what I would do
if I'm on the right and I'm --
and I think this whole thing is
ridiculous to begin with, but I
would say, you are concerned
about employee safety here, but
what about the stores were
folks are coming in and Shaw
flipped-ing and grabbing
baskets full of closed, and
products and leaving, and you
are not doing anything about
it. But you're concerned about
employee safety on this case.
You are kicking the can down
the road with another argument
that continues the story out
there, which I think -- >>
There is this independent
analysis done by a research
group that shows that right
wing demonstrators have
increasingly mobilized over the
last avoid the -- year. I don't
think we are now spreading need
a bar graph to know back on
that that's happened. Earth.
More than -- incidentally, I
think Ron planted a nursery
Desantis would claim in this
area. Credit for some of this.
Researchers hope you spent some
the seeds will help them learn
more about time digging really
deep into the kind of
biodiversity and origin story
conservation methods. Of this
push the first batch against of
plants grown from lgbtq
individuals, which has been
really centered the space seats
is around trans -- people. But
it's not by October. Space
could just about trans become a
key part of people. >> Yeah. I
fighting climate change think
there's also hundreds of
experts from a larger story
around the about the world are
gathered divorce between the
Republican in Oslo for party
and the business the community.
First global space conference
on climate a lot of these
companies feel like they are
caught change. They are in --
>> Jason,'s point there is a
guy that they've been the
victims of this culture war.
I'm from the corporations.
From institutions outside of
government.
So you've seen politicians like
Ron Desantis.
A lot of activists, whether it
is on Twitter or elsewhere.
Saying they want to go on
offense and take on these
corporations that have
interview gone woke.
So it leads to this situation
where everybody is taking
sides.
Companies have become alienated
from the traditional party of
capital because Republicans are
the ones saying, if you are
Disney, you want to promote gay
rights in your movies or on
your campuses, they are going
to protest.
>> These are businesses, they
are concerned about their
employees and customers.
And if you are, Disney you are
doing these things because you
are employees and customers are
in a place when it comes to