We vote with our dollars. Our only true power is economic. It’s the only thing that matters to the .1%.
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Jul 03, 2022
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And boycotting one day of shopping is nothing more than hashtag activism. Corporations are quite aware they only have to wait twenty-four hours, and those boycotted sales come right back the next day.
The kind of boycotts required are those such as the California grape boycott from the United Farm Workers. Generations later, Hispanic-Americans still refuse to buy California grapes—it is embedded now generationally. (This by the way is why California growers started marketing raisins, to distance themselves from the boycott.)
Something like the Montgomery Bus Boycott, where for more than a year Black Americans in Montgomery refused to ride the city's privately-owned bus system (there was no actual law requiring the company to seat Blacks in the back of the bus, the owner was a racist all on his own).
You haven't answered my question. What are we supposed to be angry about? And what is the point of boycotting ALL retailers? Boycotting specific retailers makes sense to me. For example, I've never bought gas at any BP station because of their reckless oil spill. What would we hope to achieve by boycotting all retailers on Black Friday?
What's the point? Are we supposed to be angry at all retailers?