super tolerant?
First, we know that Target fills its ads with dancing, multi-culti hipsters giving off a tolerant, urbanist vibe, and runs hipster-heavy ad campaigns positioning Target as a slightly more expensive, more progressive alternative to Wal-Mart. Well, as John Aravosis revealed on americablog.org last week, Target's politics are as red as their bulls-eye logo. The chain allows its pharmacists to refuse to dispense birth control and emergency contraception to female customers if the pharmacist objects on religious grounds. What's worse, the company claims that any of its employees have a right to discriminate against any of its customers provided the discrimination is motivated by an employee's religious beliefs.*
So, is this a case of fundamentalism run amok, or an issue of Target respecting cultural diversity?
Predictably, it's being portrayed as the former, since the phramacists are Christians. It doesn't seem that Target's policy is to only respect certain religious beliefs, so maybe Target is too tolerant for the left's liking. As usual, the left is tolerant only when you agree with them. Can't have it both ways, hippies.
RELATED: Again, when does liberal “tolerance” begin to tolerate conservative views, or, indeed, conservative judicial philosophy, which often has little or nothing to do with conservative politics? This is one of the most disheartening things about today’s left, and one reason why I simply can’t bring myself to vote Democrat.
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Look, I read mostly middle-of-the-road blogs. I don't read Kos, and I don't read Michelle Malkin, ok? And I have to say that stuff like this is, from what I've seen, much more common on the left than on the right. I mean, between this kerfuffle, the pie throwing, and the downright disgusting way that lefties have treated Condoleeza Rice (calling her Skeeza, Bush's "house nigga,"and depicting her in cartoons as Aunt Jemima) and Colin Powell (depicted as Uncle Tom), I just don't see any paralells on the right. I mean, is Ann Coulter out there calling Barney Frank a fag, writing about how he's selling out white male interests? No. (One could make an argument that her calling some lefties "treasonous" is comparable, but I'd argue that her attacks are not based on physical qualities, such as skin color, but rather on policy.) Why is it that the left gets so angry when you don't agree with them? Why the conspiracy theories? Why the hate?