Nov 17, 2023
Fox News hosts whine about Target's inclusive Christmas decor.
- 7 minutes
We're witnessing the demonization
of corporate America.
Companies are committing
financial suicide one after the other.
We all remembered
what happened to Bud Light.
And Disney got all weird,
started sticking their nose in politics,
and then their movies started flopping.
Then there's target.
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They were selling a line of clothes
for trans toddlers.
Tukums? Yes.
Tukums.
Their stock tanked down 9
billion over the summer.
But they didn't learn anything.
The Dylan it's the Dylan ization
of corporations making very mild, limited
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overtures to diversity and representation,
which they had never done before.
The Dylan affair I honestly believe that
that's what he thinks is going on.
But look, they're super excited
over at Fox for the continued culture wars
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that they engage in.
Again, these conservatives
who will do one segment on how people need
to stop critiquing others speech
and they need to let people just be
politically incorrect if they want to be,
then they immediately transfer over to.
How dare a corporation sell a thing?
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Well, you can see that he's mad.
What is he mad about this holiday season?
Take a look.
Gay nutcracker
complete with a rainbow hat, a trans flag.
Full price $12.
But right now it's on sale for eight.
Target also sells Santa's ornaments,
but Target Santa is in a wheelchair
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and is black.
And it's a good thing our chimney
is wheelchair accessible, so Jesse Junior
is going to get all the gifts he wants.
How you get it is because they would
have trouble operating as Santa.
Isn't that funny?
To. What I have to imagine is an audience
that he thinks doesn't include
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any conservatives
who are disabled in any way or in any way,
you know, movement like limited like I
don't understand the casual desire
to insult members of your own audience,
but it's an unending thing anyway.
They have to be angry about something.
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So they went and they tried
to find something that,
like everyone would agree is unacceptable.
They can't.
What they found is a nutcracker
and a black disabled Santa, and he can't
even tell you what is wrong about that.
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He just says it puts up the picture,
and you're supposed to fill in the blanks
of why that's a bad thing.
And for the many, like conservative men
who are watching this,
they're just steaming over this.
They're trained to be alphas,
to be strong, and they're spending
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their time being mad about things
that they would never buy.
I don't get any of this.
Helen, can you explain this?
Why is this such a big issue
for these people?
My favorite part about that is that,
you know, he put up the picture
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of the of the Gay Nutcracker, but there
was one gay nutcracker next to like,
clearly a stack of not gay nutcrackers.
So he's mad that there's one.
They're offering
one goddamn gay nutcracker
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amongst the sea of straight nutcrackers.
And I'm twisted about it. You know what?
My nuts feel cracked about this.
It's like, dude, just don't buy.
Just go turn around
and look at the pillows.
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There's plenty of straight pillows, you
know, like, what are you talking about?
Like, turn like, underneath,
I'm sure directly next to this pile
of black Santas in wheelchairs.
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There was a much bigger pile
of white Santas standing up
who were fully able bodied that he did not
want to juxtapose in the photo.
Like, it's like, dude,
let's literally show us the whole picture.
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You're not showing us the whole picture,
and why does anybody care?
Just literally turn to the right and there
will be a able bodied white Santa
for you to buy literally anywhere else.
Anywhere else.
There will be plenty,
plenty of able bodied white Santas.
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You know, this is the one one section
in one aisle of a black Santa and a
wheelchair and oh, we can't have this.
We can't have this. I'm sorry.
Yeah, I agree, and if there is only
one gay nutcracker, I'm mad about that.
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I don't know, a gay nutcracker
that wants to be alone over the holidays.
Okay, I think it's also,
it's just so pathetic to put on target
and these other companies as if they're
trying to push this moral agenda.
It could be that they just want
to make money
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from groups that have been underserved.
Okay, I grew up and now I'm dating
myself where it was a little hard
to find black Barbie dolls.
Okay? We couldn't get them at every store.
Once they got them, we bought all of them.
It could just be that the companies want
to make money and serve more consumers
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than just the straight white Nutcracker.
I could be wrong, okay?
I'm a terrible businesswoman,
but that's my thought.
Yeah, I think I think the only like,
gay agenda they're pursuing
with that Nutcracker
is their desire to have your $12 or $8.
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Now, I think they want to have that.
I, I get that that's what the job is.
That is what Jesse Watters
and all the rest have signed up for.
They didn't put that on the rundown.
Some Fox producer went to target and just
looked for something to be mad about, and
now they need to performatively pretend
that it bothers them that it's there,
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but it's just it's it's so weird.
I don't understand the weakness.
I don't understand why these people who.
And Jesse Watters is a white male like me.
We have never had difficulty
in finding people, characters like us
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reflected everywhere we look.
Why it bothers you so much
that not 100% are exactly like you?
Why it ruins your day that a woman is
starring in a movie, or a person of color
is included in a thing.
Why is it that you have, after a lifetime
of having the world catered specifically
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to you, you can't take just a little bit
of that being given to other people.
You've enjoyed it.
It is clear how important
representation is to you.
So why do you not understand
why it's important to other people?
It is core to your worldview,
but you don't think anyone else
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should care about it like you.
And even diversity in pursuit
of celebrating a family holiday together.
This is not some subversive thing.
This is Christmas.
This is Santa. This is tradition.
This is like linked a lot
of times to Christianity.
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Like, why is that not
enough of that for them?
At this point,
I will literally never understand
the performative weakness of these people.
Any final thoughts?
- You're missing.
- The point.
Santa is white.
Okay, that's what they would tell you.
Okay, that's Megyn Kelly.
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Jesse Watters,
if you go out today to literally any store
and have trouble finding
a white able bodied Santa ornament, I will
give you not just $8, I will give you $12.
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Like I will pay the full price
of that gay nutcracker for you.
I will buy it off of you if you
have any trouble at all in any store.
Finding a white able bodied Santa
ornament, I will give you $12.
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That is a guarantee you can take
that to the target.
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