{"id":196286,"date":"2023-11-25T17:51:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T17:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/?p=196286"},"modified":"2023-11-25T17:51:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T17:51:14","slug":"target-under-fire-for-sexualizing-christmas-with-pride-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/world-news\/target-under-fire-for-sexualizing-christmas-with-pride-santa\/","title":{"rendered":"Target under fire for &apos;sexualizing&apos; Christmas with &apos;pride Santa&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Target under fire for &#8216;sexualizing Christmas for children&#8217; with &#8216;pride Santa&#8217; decorations<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Target has rolled out a &#8216;Pride Santa&#8217; and a &#8216;Pride Christmas Nutcracker&#8217; Figurine as part of their LGBTQ+holiday decoration line\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span>The big box retailer is selling the items on their website despite the widespread backlash the store received\u00a0when Pride items were sold earlier this year\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Last week Fox News host Jesse Watters spoke about the LGBTQ holiday merchandise on his show claiming it was &#8216;sexualizing Christmas for children&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mega retail chain Target is under fire for &#8216;sexualizing&#8217; Christmas\u00a0with a\u00a0LGBTQ+holiday decoration line that features &#8216;Pride Santa&#8217; and a &#8216;Pride Christmas Nutcracker&#8217;\u00a0Figurine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Fabriche Pride Santa&#8217; features St. Nicholas holding the rainbow Pride Flag, the symbol of the LGBTQ community, bearing the slogan &#8216;Love is Love&#8217; on his white shirt with rainbow suspenders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A wooden Nutcracker figurine &#8211; dressed in a blue and white jacket with rainbow lapels, a rainbow hat and holding a &#8216;progress flag&#8217; &#8211;\u00a0 is also part of the 2023 holiday collection.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The items are available for sale on the company&#8217;s website\u00a0despite the widespread backlash the store received when Pride items were sold earlier this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some shoppers who were snapping up the LGBTQ decor online praised Target for being &#8216;inclusive,&#8217; with some adding that the store was offering a &#8216;good mix of Christmas and pride,&#8217; while others commented on how &#8216;affordable&#8217; it was.<\/p>\n<p>Last week Fox News\u00a0host Jesse Watters spoke about the LGBTQ holiday merchandise on his show claiming it was &#8216;sexualizing Christmas for children.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>His guest Riley Gaines, a former competitive swimmer who campaigned against the participation of trans women in women&#8217;s sports, echoed the same sentiment asking why &#8216;they\u00a0keep pushing this? Who are they trying to appeal to?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She added, in part, &#8216;this doesn&#8217;t represent the overwhelming majority of this country, really how the world, feels on this issue.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/23\/00\/78134969-12781649-image-a-17_1700697843572.jpg\" height=\"638\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Fabriche Pride Santa&#8217; (pictured) features St. Nicholas holding the rainbow Pride Flag, the symbol of the LGBTQ community, bearing the slogan &#8216;Love is Love&#8217; on his white shirt with rainbow suspenders and red sunglasses<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/23\/00\/78136155-12781649-image-a-30_1700699110786.jpg\" height=\"634\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A wooden Nutcracker figurine (pictured) dressed in a blue and white jacket with rainbow lapels, rainbow hat and holding a &#8216;progress flag&#8217; &#8211; is also part of Target&#8217;s 2023 holiday line\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/22\/23\/78134173-12781649-image-a-8_1700695790425.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A shopper is looking at the various holiday displays at the Target store on Wednesday that is filled with holiday merchandise including Christmas trees, miniature Santas, ornaments among other Christmas merchandise\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before &#8216;Black Friday&#8217; one of the biggest shopping days of the year hits, the non-profit Consumers&#8217; Research Group issued a &#8216;Woke Alert&#8217; for Target for Black Friday and for Cyber Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The group stated that the retailer &#8216;continues to support woke policies, even after immense backlash for their Pride Month line, which included LGBTQ+ merchandise geared toward children and even babies.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This line included &#8216;tuck friendly&#8217; bathing suits for kids, children&#8217;s books on transgenderism, and clothing emblazoned with proactive LGBTQ+ slogans and more.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;To make matters worse, when recently confronted on national television\u00a0about these products, Target CEO Brian Cornell tried to sweep the controversy under the rug by flat-out lying, stating &#8216;Well, I think you and I both know those weren&#8217;t true \u2026&#8217; the alliance wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The conservative Media Research Center, posted in on their blog stating, &#8216;leave it to the woke mob who runs Target to show how big of idiots they are once again,&#8217; The New York Post reported.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/22\/23\/78134195-12781649-image-a-9_1700695802087.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A Target store in Philadelphia during the 2021 holiday season. The mega retail chain is under fire for &#8216;sexualizing&#8217; Christmas with a LGBTQ +holiday decoration line that features &#8216;Pride Santa&#8217; and a &#8216;Pride Christmas Nutcracker&#8217; Figurine<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/22\/23\/78134181-12781649-image-a-10_1700695829735.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Before &#8216;Black Friday&#8217; one of the biggest shopping days of the year, hits the non-profit Consumers&#8217; Research Group issued a &#8216;Woke Alert&#8217; for Target for Black Friday and for Cyber Monday<\/p>\n<p>Target rolled out merchandise in May before the celebration of LGBTQ in June that caused some controversy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some of the items for sale included,<span>\u00a0women&#8217;s style swimsuits that advertise &#8216;tuck-friendly construction&#8217; to hide male genitalia went viral in May.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After facing some customer backlash Target pulled some of its produc<\/span>ts from its stores, claiming that it was acting to protect employee safety, the company told\u00a0Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>A Target spokesperson said that Target has been celebrating Pride Month for more than a decade offering more than\u00a02,000 products, including clothing, books, music and home furnishings as part of its Pride Collection, The news outlet reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additional items include &#8216;gender fluid&#8217; 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