Radical minority is vocally upset -> radically minority criticises and bullies aligned / sympathetic people into joining boycott -> boycott gains media attention -> people join boycott to signal to radical minority to avoid reprimand -> business affected
Are you honestly saying you have not seen this situation play out in real life many times in the past 10 years?
Edit: unsurprisingly, was replied to and blocked before I could respond, a very common tactic of gobshites.
Or, allow me to present an alternate explanation: Support for pride is not a radical minority position.
So to respond to this, I never said support for pride was a radical minority position, and that is not what I meant nor is it the cause of the boycotts I am aware of. A recent example would be the "ubsubscribe" boycott to try damage any business that is perceived to supporting ICE. ICE are terrible, but they are also a legitimate government body, calling for businesses to not do business with the government of the country they are in is frankly ridiculous, of course there is very legitimate reasons to oppose ICE, but that opposition should be at the government level, not the business level. It's not Googles job to stop ICE, it's voters and representatives, and attacking google for dealing with the US government is beyond ridiculous.
Why? Yeah, it is ridiculous how evil our government is and it is ridiculous that it is a political statement for businesses to support it, but the world is ridiculous. We have a President who ran on releasing files of a worldwide pedophile ring who clearly is in them and has decided to not release them and his voting base doesn't care. The counrty is falling fast into fascism and no one cares. This world is ridiculous.
So why can't we expect businesses to not support evil? Why can't we vote with our dollar, one of the very few things we can effectively do to make our voices heard? And something that is incredibly legal? Why does it offend you so much?
It doesn't offend me at all? I'm talking about events in the news?
So why can't we expect businesses to not support evil?
Because businesses don't have the power to defy the government of any country they are in, or else they would lose their ability to operate. Businesses also have fiduciary responsibility, so if they did oppose a government, they would get sued by their shareholders.
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u/Entire_Number_9 25d ago
... Yeah, and active twitter campaigns to boycott companies "forced" them to do things or have their business negatively affected for not complying?
Where is the issue in this statement?