Planet Fitness outlets receive bomb threats after far right derides gym policy
Source: The Guardian
Sat 13 Apr 2024 07.00 EDT
More than 40 Planet Fitness locations across the country have received bomb threats after a conservative movement against the gyms trans-inclusive locker room policy went viral online. In the weeks since the backlash against the gym chain started in March, at least 43 locations in Connecticut, Florida, Alabama and other states have received bomb threats, according to progressive media watchdog group Media Matters.
The group said that swift social media backlash, centering on anti-trans rhetoric, is reminiscent of last years boycott against Bud Light. Sales of the beer brand fell last year after the company partnered with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney in an advertisement.
Planet Fitness said in a statement that the company has been working closely with local and federal authorities to investigate these threats and will continue to take action to ensure the safety of our members and employees.
The backlash started with the rightwing social media account Libs of TikTok posting on X a video of a woman saying that there was a man shaving in a womens bathroom at her Planet Fitness location in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/13/planet-fitness-bomb-threats-libs-of-tiktok
That "Libs" account needs to be banned.
niyad
(113,524 posts)twodogsbarking
(9,792 posts)wolfie001
(2,264 posts)Everyone of these calls is a trump voter. Zero doubt.
Chi67
(1,070 posts)It's way past time to start prosecuting these fascists! People who make bomb threats are terrorists and should be treated as such. The rest of us sane people have had enough. Send these assholes to Gitmo. I am very serious.
And good for Planet Fitness for standing up. More companies need to walk the walk like they do.
The Grand Illuminist
(1,336 posts)There will be bombings without any threats whatsoever if action is not taken now by every means.
Polybius
(15,467 posts)Idiot right-wing haters.
Adults should be able to control themselves. I play hockey and most facilities weren't built with locker rooms for both sexes, so we all mostly change in the same rooms. Nobody cares.
Grow the fuck up, right wingers.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)When Chaya Raichiks shit-stirring finally gets someone killed then what?
Hong Kong Cavalier
(4,573 posts)This is exactly what she wants.
Don't forget she was appointed to the Oklahoma statewide library advisory board (despite not living anywhere near Oklahoma)