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Right-wingers are now raging at a farm supply store – because they have LGBTQ+ staff initiatives (www.thepinknews.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to c/lgbtq_plus@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Rural retail chain company Tractor Supply are facing calls for a boycott for, amongst other things, donating money to diversity and inclusion causes, which included projects that support LGBTQ+ youth.

Tractor Supply is far from the only retail chain that has faced boycott calls over DEI and Pride initiatives in recent years, though a rural supply company is certainly an unusual target for the right.

In fact, just today, right-wingers decided to take aim at IKEA’s rainbow Pride charity cake. To mark Pride Month 2024, the UK branch of the Swedish furniture chain announced its popular rainbow cake is back in its restaurants and will be sold throughout June, with 100 per cent of the profits going to LGBT+ Switchboard.

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[–] HogsTooth@lemmy.world 53 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I guess our continued plan of just waiting for all the boomers to die is still the only plan we're going with?

[–] ech@lemm.ee 21 points 6 months ago

Gen X and Millennial conservatives are far from nonexistent. They're the ones leading the charge on garbage like this.

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Conservatives don't want anything to change. Time to get rid of them

[–] Gnugit@aussie.zone 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The paradox of tolerance is that you can not have a tolerant society if you tolerate the intolerant.

[–] HogsTooth@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

Tolerance as a social contract fixes this. "We will tolerate you if you tolerate us." That keeps us from welcoming traitors.

[–] BranBucket@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

The problem is that the more you fight change, the more you change things. Your movement becomes more and more focused on resisting change, and less focused on preserving any good qualities it once had. It's an inescapable bit of futility, hard coded into the human condition.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

It's worse than that. Conservatives want everything to change. Back to the early 1800's.