"LGBTQ+ brand creator ‘relieved’ after Target pulls his items off shelves due to online backlash"

[kane_magus]

Everything about this situation is super fucked up, but it is, of course, the noxious asshats who sent death threats to that guy and to Target over it who are, by far, the most fucked up of all. I welcome the day when stories like this are no longer possible, due to all the repugnant asshats like that no longer existing because they finally pulled their heads out of their asses and stopped being such loathsome asshats at all. Or else died off. I'd be okay with that being the reason, too. Granted, I definitely will be long dead myself before that day ever arrives, but still.

The only good-ish thing that could have come of this otherwise dreadful situation is that, due to the Streisand Effect generated by all those revolting asshats and their odious dogshit, I'd bet that way more people know about Abprallen now than probably otherwise would have. I'm certainly one of them, at the very least, because I do not possess enough fingers to count the number of years it has been since I've last been inside a Target store or looked at the Target website for anything at all. As such, I almost assuredly never would have known about it had the news not blown up about all the horseshit backlash to it. And I hope that knowledge chaps raw the anuses of every single one of those pestilent asshats.

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[owsf2000]

I think it's less that he's happy that he lost his business deal and more that he'll be receiving fewer death threats.

An overall fucked up situation all around though it seems yeah.

[kane_magus]

Yeah, it says as much in the article.

Carnell’s immediate reaction was relief.

“​​The amount of backlash that I have gotten has been overwhelming,” he said. “I just hope that this is the beginning of the end of the messages and the onslaught that I’m getting.”

But for a small brand, losing access to Target’s massive reach is a blow.

“When this has all died down, I’m going to be incredibly disappointed that such a huge opportunity was taken away from me.”

It's kind of a badly worded headline, maybe intentionally so for clickbait purposes, which seems to be standard practice in "journalism" these days.