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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “Earlier this year when [Target] announced that they were…”

Featuring: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic | U.S. House, New York, District 14

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September Virtual Town Hall

Published | Video Starts at 1:09:23

There were widespread cancellations of subscriptions, whether it's your screaming streaming subscription, whether it was people's family vacations, and they started voting with their Pocketbooks. And it works. It works. You can just ask Target. Earlier this year when [Target] announced that they were going to comply in advance by trying to eliminate all of their DEI programs...people voted with their Pocketbook and they said, we're not going to go to Target anymore. And they have been paying the price. And since they've paid that price and since people have been voting with their Pocketbook, they in lots of institutions have started to change course. (1:09:23–1:09:41)

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Asserts that Target faced consumer backlash for attempting to eliminate DEI programs.

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