what kinds of things do you boycott? where is the line? For example, you know a celebrity has a drug addiction, and spends his earnings on buying drugs which further promotes his illness and the accompanying problems to his family/ burden on society etc. , ( you are vehemently in opposition to substance abuse)do you continue to see his films?
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14 responses to “where is your line for boycotting?”
I’ve jokingly said that when it’s cold and miserable we should boycott the snow itself
@Jear77 I’m for boycotting cold
No matter who is President of the United States of America, anyone who hates the President is on my boycott list.
Anyone who says that supporters of the President and people who love America and our Constitution are not allowed in their business, store, or allowed to use their product. I will gladly stay away from their business, store, and not buy their product.
Any supporter of Communism or Socialism will not get my support. I have seen life under Socialism and have seen it fail. I don’t want it in my country.
Any person ruining their life on drugs, or booze, is not going to be anywhere around my personal life.
Rush Limbaugh, although he has good things to say, his voice tone and cadence is so much like an ex-husband I no longer tolerate (thank goodness he is dead) and the sound of that voice is irritating to me. I turn Rush OFF!
@ladybarbara
The only presidents I liked was Ford & Carter, when I was pretty much a toddler.
Are his films AWESOME!?!?!?!?
I have a similar dilemma. Netflix has this Spanish show with one of Pablo Escobar’s former hitmen in it. So he’s getting paid by everyone with a netflix account, & he’s an admitted mass-murderer, BUT they just crammed the stream with every Monty Python!!!
I’m thinking I’m gonna cancel it,…… but…
@luftballooneyegouge I have no person and no thing I am currently boycotting, to my knowledge. I stayed away from chic fil a for a while, but the waffle fries…
@Scarlett I was boycotting Chic Fil A, because my gay son said for me to NEVER go there. Then, I was hungry for lunch and I can’t get Immortal Pirate to go there, so I went alone. It is a family friendly place. It is a really friendly place to eat. I normally hate potatoes (after a 3 month stay in Russia, where the Socialist regime had everyone poor and eating only potatoes each meal, everyday) and I avoid potatoes. Then I tasted waffle fries and …… OMG!!! I love the waffle fries! Boycotting Chic Fil A because of my son’s beliefs seems silly, now that I tasted the food and wallowed in the super friendliness —– and waffle fries.
@Scarlett @ladybarbara
I’ve probably eaten at least one chicken’s worth of their samples at the mall, but I’ve never gone in & bought anything. When people find this out about me, they often look at me like I just pulled the mandible out of my mouth.
@luftballooneyegouge You would love the sample trays at Costco. They offer samples of everything. I’m not a member, because I would not buy enough to make it worth the membership fee. Costco would be the best place to hide if there was a zombie Apocalypse. There are block walls with no windows. All the supplies you would ever need are in there. Zombies could not get in because they don’t have a membership card and you have to be a member to get in.
@ladybarbara
I’m tempted to get the $60 membership and just go graze on the sample trays without buying anything.
@luftballooneyegouge It’s good for the whole year, or more.
While we should always strive to spend our consumer dollars wisely, lay ignorance of how economic systems work usually makes boycotting campaigns little more than virtue signaling.
The money you didn’t spend on an artist’s products could mean a stagehand gets laid off and can’t afford an operation for her little girl.
Things are insanely interconnected. Boycotting third world sweatshops seemed like a good idea going in. But when rich westerners decided to signal their virtue, those shops closed down. Workers who got a pitiful wage for difficult work had no choice but to go back to the fields and get no wage for back-breaking work, trapped there with no future. They at least had some hope for climbing the capitalistic ladder, but now they have none.
But so long as we can wring out a good feeling for ourselves, eh?
I’m not saying that we shouldn’t try to be wise consumers. But when compassion runs amok it often doesn’t fix what it is trying to fix.
And a lot of times it even has the reverse effect and makes things worse in the long run (toxic parenting, affirmative action, diversity quotas, price control, rent control, drug control).
When are we going to learn that most of our attempts to control others, backfire?
@griz I am not personally boycotting anything at the moment. Of course there are things I don’t prefer. However, I am curious about boycotting in general and justifying a stance. It seems like to have integrity one would have to do their research so carefully.
@Scarlett
My thought is that the problem with boycotting is that it’s often driven with emotions and agenda more than with careful research and critical thought. There is no doubt that great corruption and evil can lay within the hearts of corporations.
But is the heart of the mob any more noble? It seems as if for every one well researched constructive campaign based on facts and intelligent reaction, there are dozens of destructive and manipulative ones based on emotions and the support of ideologies and agendas.
Remember that it’s still not entirely clear what happened at Starbucks. But the emotional cry bully mobs managed to kowtow a major corporation into closing down and indoctrination its employees with training that has shown no evidence of being effective — and growing evidence of having the opposite effect.
And apparently even Google, the monster of all Monster Corporations and modern gateway to all knowledge, can be mob bullied into demonetizing videos, blocking accounts, and even the firing their own Engineers for complying with their requests that honor facts, but not the emotions or agendas of the activists.
We may need to own that we have allowed boycotting (and broader range of protests) to become the proverbial over-prescribed antibiotic or overused used sanitary wipe that actually weakens what we are trying to protect.