When do you go from not wanting to buy a product or patronize a service (pay to see a movie, hire a lawyer, etc.) to bothering to try to convince others to do the same as you, to engaging in or calling for a boycott, to trying to get a law passed or regulation implemented so on one else can do the thing you have decided you don’t want to do yourself?<\/p>\n
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A major, national ice cream company recently came up with a product that apparently has a name sufficiently profane or offensive to some that people here in the Twin Cities are calling for local stores to remove it from the shelves. I am annoyed at Go Daddy for spamming my Scienceblogs.com site so I blogged about it. Ironically, that very post is now being spammed by Go Daddy! So, in case you were wondering if they were really doing it …. Rebecca Watson did not call for a boycott of Richard Dawkins’ books and stuff — she just mentioned that she would not per personally spending much money on the guy — but she was then accused of carrying out a vindictive boycott, indicating that the question is not always about what to buy\/not buy or boycott\/not boycott, but also, which trolls will bother with you if you make a particular decision in public.<\/p>\n
My first wife’s family had experienced the Holocaust in a fairly direct way so there were a number of products that would not be found in that household, and when we got a VW there was some ‘splainin to do. Boycotts of entire countries are said to not usually work very well, but many people involved in South Africa at the time of that boycott claim that it made a difference. I still avoid Paul Simon because he ignored it and carried out cultural robbery there. <\/p>\n
Just as interesting as the question of what you buy or not, or how far you go with “voting with the pocketbook” is the degree to which people will react to the decisions made by others in this regard. <\/p>\n
What do you avoid, boycott, or otherwise lobby against with friends or even beyond? What do other people do along these lines that annoy you? Do you boycott people who boycott!?!!?? If so, Imma boycott you!!! (only kidding)<\/p>\n
But seriously, what do you do or not do when it comes to voting with your wallet? Or feet? <\/p>\n
Here’s a handy dandy scale for you to use: <\/p>\n
When do you go from not wanting to buy a product or patronize a service (pay to see a movie, hire a lawyer, etc.) to bothering to try to convince others to do the same as you, to engaging in or calling for a boycott, to trying to get a law passed or regulation implemented … Continue reading BOYCOTT!!!!11!!<\/span>