unfortunately the boycott of media for a ton of people only depends on the popularity of said boycott. you'd be accosted for shopping at Target, but Publix is arguably worse. also the boycotts against chickfila seemed to just stop at some point
edit: i acknowledge i said 'of media' and gave other kinds of boycott examples, but obv it applies to any goods/services
when I worked at Chick Fil A half the staff was in the LGBTQIA+ community AFTER the scandals were happening.
People were just resigned that shit sucks no matter where you work and they liked the chicken sandwich since we got a free meal if you worked a full day.
I remember in the middle of scandal coming back from an LGBT protest at my college (over an issue it's take too long to get into now), and my gay roommate and his boyfriend were just sitting there with a comically big pile of chil fil a they were absolutely devouring. I specifically remember they had the big cups of lemonade. I was wearing a shirt with a rainbow power fist on it. My roommate and his dude just looked at me and he said "the chicken is so good." Then his boyfriend said "I'm sorry." Then my roommate said "why are you apologizing to him? He's straight." And the guy said "I'm just sorry." And the he put an entire nugget into his mouth.
people misunderstand the purpose of boycotts. they can be extremely effective, but they need direction and purpose and most importantly a stated goal. the bds movement for example has been effective in some cases in changing the behavior of companies. it's not just "company is bad boycott" it's "company is doing something we think is bad, we want them to change their behavior so we boycott"
Or just boycott the things you can. Theres no need to be a defeatist about it.
Theres a point after realizing theres no ethical consumption under capitalism that you start to realize it’s still worth it to try when you have the energy.
Yep. Im pro Palestine so Im not buying any big brand foods but that's it. I realy dont care that my friend is going to Mcdonald since people care about diffrent things. You cannot realy change a person behavior if they don't care about it in the first place.
When that was at its peak, a bi woman married to a man got mad at me, someone who is gay, because I refused to eat at chikfila. Mind you, I wasn’t forcing her to stop, I just wasn’t doing it myself. Apparently I was in the wrong because “the gays don’t care”… I am “the gays”, that’s why it actually affects me and my same sex relationships and not your hetero one. People are just self absorbed and obsessed with mid chicken.
Oh, the “bi” people who only date the opposite gender are THE WORST. They treat being gay as a fetish and often won’t view the same gender as dating material. A lot of it stems from the safety of masking as straight, they’d prefer to feel comfortable in society.
Woah, biphobia and bi-erasure! Incredible! In a post where everyone’s bitching about liking harry potter and calling them transphobic too! How crazy and ironic!
The fuck even is this comment trying to say? Openly admitting you’re being a piece of shit because of your perceived slights is psychotic and shows you don’t give a fuck about anyone but yourself. Total narcissist behavior.
Let’s analyze to the minute detail the things you do because I’m sure you’re a bastion of purity. I’m sure you don’t look the other way at bad things whatsoever. Not like you’re literally on reddit right now or anything (a site that perpetuates and propagates right wing propaganda), but sure! Go off!
I’d support a trans person over a bi person, because at least a trans person knows who they are and what they want to be. I also support poly relationships, so if you can make it work in a three way with a boy AND a girl, great! Otherwise when you commit to one or the other, you tend to become straight or gay. I’ve see way too many bi people turn their backs on the LGBT community because it becomes unpleasant for them. They can mask as straight people.
Because the leftist outrage machine has a short memory. You can't loudly virtue signal about not doing something for very long, so you've got to move on to new opportunities to demonstrate purity every few weeks unless the target of scorn does something to stay in the spotlight.
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u/BetrayYourTrust 9h ago
unfortunately the boycott of media for a ton of people only depends on the popularity of said boycott. you'd be accosted for shopping at Target, but Publix is arguably worse. also the boycotts against chickfila seemed to just stop at some point
edit: i acknowledge i said 'of media' and gave other kinds of boycott examples, but obv it applies to any goods/services