Boycotts aren’t effective alone.
Neither is one person deciding to vote for the other party.
Telling your boss ‘Uh, no, I’m not going to do that, that’s illegal and immoral and probably a war crime or something’ is not actually effective.
Sure, I could switch providers or go sailing the high seas but that won’t eradicate fascism, so why bother?
So I guess the only solutions are
1, carry right on supporting, validating, and participating in any bad practice or evil that comes your way,
2, some hitherto undiscovered way to Stop Evil in one fell stroke, or
3, engage in change as a process, on the understanding that the bad guys are hopefully not the only type of people who can work together to get shit done over a longer timeframe than ‘now or never’.
I’m going for 3, because frankly if there aren’t enough decent people in my community to put in a fraction of the effort the dangerous idiots are putting in, it’s not worth saving.
And I can’t be bothered to do the whole ‘judging myself, my family and friends and neighbours and country and society and finding it wanting’ at the moment, so it’s easier to just do what little good I can, wherever I see the chance
I already don’t even have a Disney+, Hulu, or ESPN+ account. So if you are trying to say I should participate and cancel my subscriptions I literally can’t.
My point still stands: Boycotts barely do much at all. They can be a small boost to a political project if they are done alongside something more substantial but otherwise whatever they accomplish is essentially washed away in the noise eventually if its the only thing done.
And at worst, they can be a form of slacktivism. Satiating one’s feeling that they need to contribute to a cause without meaningfully actually doing so.
Better methods would be: attempting to induce shame in those working at Disney and getting them to resign, harassing their CEO, spreading propaganda about the content of the company itself that actually hurts their bottom line, and <multiple tactics redacted for legal reasons>.
Hell, merely promoting alternative content would even be better than a boycott. Then you are satiating people with something other than Disney slop for who knows how long so they don’t even have to make the decision of going without all while promoting smaller companies/organizations or creators.
Boycotts on their own are not effective. They are more of a sprinkling addition to a full fledged program that includes more heavy duty tactics.
Boycotts aren’t effective alone. Neither is one person deciding to vote for the other party. Telling your boss ‘Uh, no, I’m not going to do that, that’s illegal and immoral and probably a war crime or something’ is not actually effective. Sure, I could switch providers or go sailing the high seas but that won’t eradicate fascism, so why bother?
So I guess the only solutions are 1, carry right on supporting, validating, and participating in any bad practice or evil that comes your way, 2, some hitherto undiscovered way to Stop Evil in one fell stroke, or 3, engage in change as a process, on the understanding that the bad guys are hopefully not the only type of people who can work together to get shit done over a longer timeframe than ‘now or never’.
I’m going for 3, because frankly if there aren’t enough decent people in my community to put in a fraction of the effort the dangerous idiots are putting in, it’s not worth saving. And I can’t be bothered to do the whole ‘judging myself, my family and friends and neighbours and country and society and finding it wanting’ at the moment, so it’s easier to just do what little good I can, wherever I see the chance
I already don’t even have a Disney+, Hulu, or ESPN+ account. So if you are trying to say I should participate and cancel my subscriptions I literally can’t.
My point still stands: Boycotts barely do much at all. They can be a small boost to a political project if they are done alongside something more substantial but otherwise whatever they accomplish is essentially washed away in the noise eventually if its the only thing done.
And at worst, they can be a form of slacktivism. Satiating one’s feeling that they need to contribute to a cause without meaningfully actually doing so.
Better methods would be: attempting to induce shame in those working at Disney and getting them to resign, harassing their CEO, spreading propaganda about the content of the company itself that actually hurts their bottom line, and <multiple tactics redacted for legal reasons>.
Hell, merely promoting alternative content would even be better than a boycott. Then you are satiating people with something other than Disney slop for who knows how long so they don’t even have to make the decision of going without all while promoting smaller companies/organizations or creators.