Lowe’s Becomes Latest To Cave To Anti-LGBTQ Push

NBC News reports:

Home goods retailer Lowe’s is paring back its efforts to promote LGBTQ inclusion — the latest large company to respond to a growing cultural backlash led by conservatives targeting queer representation in public life. In an internal company memo being widely shared among media organizations, Lowe’s told employees it was ending its participation in surveys for the Human Rights Campaign.

The company said it would also end sponsorship and participation in community events such as parades, festivals, or fairs — a reference to pride parades. As recently as 2019, Lowe’s was a sponsor of Charlotte, North Carolina’s pride parade. Lowe’s changes follow closely on the heels of announcements by Harley Davidson and Jack Daniel’s parent Brown-Forman; as well as similar changes made by Tractor Supply, John Deere and Best Buy.

Read the full article. Once again, the person behind this is failed House candidate, far-right cultist, and QAnon nutbag Robby Starbuck [photo].

Home improvement retailer Lowe’s has scrapped some of its diversity, equity and inclusion programs, becoming the latest US firm to modify such policies meant to boost racial and ethnic representation https://t.co/VP0BvUbXs2 pic.twitter.com/BG5jQRJxm6

— Reuters Legal (@ReutersLegal) August 26, 2024

Lowe’s becomes latest company to dial back DEI efforts aimed at LGBTQ groups https://t.co/EzwFAqxXJh

— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) August 27, 2024

1. Robby Starbuck has convinced major corporations to cancel programs supporting LGBTQ employees & customers

He is also a CONSPIRACY THEORIST and ANTI-LGTBQ EXTREMIST

Starbuck has suggested, for example, that CHEMICALS IN TAP WATER ARE TURNING KIDS “GAY”

Follow along for…

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 31, 2024

2. Starbuck first targeted @TractorSupply, complaining that the company displayed “Pride month decorations in the office,” funds Pride events, and engages in “DEI hiring practices.”https://t.co/05pUi19jHd

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 31, 2024

4. On July 10, Starbuck promoted the racist great replacement theory on X. “There’s no sugarcoating it,” Starbuck wrote. “Democrats want illegal immigrants to vote. It’s why they let them in.”

The great replacement theory is the claim that Democrats are trying to “replace”…

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 31, 2024

5. Starbuck also promoted wild claims about the purported dangers of the COVID-19 vaccine. In October 2023, following the death of actor Matthew Perry after years of struggling with drug addiction, Starbuck suggested Perry’s death was actually caused by the COVID-19 vaccine.…

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 31, 2024

6. Starbuck has also promoted “chemtrails,” a conspiracy theory that “governments or other parties are engaged in a secret program to add toxic chemicals to the atmosphere,” which he claims are part of a government effort to control the weather.

In April, Starbuck wrote that…

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 31, 2024

9. Earlier this year, Starbuck released a documentary called The War on Children. The documentary depicts the LGBTQ movement as a sophisticated effort by the government, social media companies, and the medical community to corrupt and sexualize childrenhttps://t.co/05pUi19jHd

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 31, 2024

10. In the documentary, which has 2 million views on X, Starbuck suggests that toxic chemicals are causing children to identify as LGBTQ.

Starbuck claimed a study found that exposure to the pesticide atrazine in frogs purportedly turned them “gay” and caused them to mate with…

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 31, 2024

13. Starbuck has garnered considerable media attention, but none of the coverage has accurate described his extremist ideology.

In an article about his boycott efforts, the Associated Press referred to Starbuck only as a “[c]onservative political commentator and filmmaker” and…

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 31, 2024