What Makes a Boycott Actually Successful?
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- Have you ever been encouraged to "vote with your wallet"? From the Boston Tea Party to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the nationwide grape boycott of the 1960s, boycotts have long been a powerful tool for social change. But in today’s world, where viral boycotts come and go in the blink of an eye, do they still hold the same power? Discover the historical roots of boycotts, their lasting impact, and explore whether this form of resistance is still effective in our modern society.
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Monopolies have weakened the impact of boycotting.
Agreed.
100%
Sadly, yes. But, what about alternative local products? Kalian nggak punya produk UMKM? 😭
Ah you don't know a lot about the USA "free" market then. In theory our economy thrives on smaller competitors and local businesses. BUT that doesn't happen here, small businesses can't compete against the tactics monopolies use. They started to disappear after the Reagan presidency, due to the rollbacks of some regulations against monopoly. Every Republican candidate in our country (and a majority Democrats too) has worked for the 1% and gutted anti-monopoly regulations.@@valhatan3907
Boycotting Nestlè right now, among others. Just mentioning them because they control a lot of brands, and getting all of them is surprisingly hard...
F*ck Nestle!
Agreed 💯
Been trying to avoid nestle products for a couple years. Its crazy how much they own
has anyone tried trying to get a store to stop carrying 'em?
🤨 There's no current boycott on Nestlé. The OP is probably just an LTT viewer who misunderstood Linus bringing up Nestlé during the Lan Show as a counter to Luke groaning about Prime in the vending-machine.
When we stand together, boycotting works.
Too bad people DON'T stand together. Even if you manage to convince a lot of people to boycott something bad, there will still be 90%+ left who don't for any of several reasons.
So boycotting doesn’t work these days
@@dinkybossyour statement is as unpopular as actually boycotting en mass.
@@dinkyboss
Have we even tried?
The origin of ‘boycott’ blew my mind,
It always seems like someone is making it up when they say something like "Boycotts were named after Charles Boycott" or "Smart and Final was founded by Jim Smart and H.D. Final," but sometimes it's true.
A common refrain I hear now is people refusing to buy from a specific brand for ethical reasons, which is totally fair, while calling it a boycott. To me, a boycott means you won't buy the thing until a specific policy or behavior is changed. But more often than not I hear people say they'll never shop there again. That's your prerogative as a consumer, but that's not a boycott. It's just a preference. If your coming back as a customer is something that will never happen ever again, then you aren't asking the business to change, you're just taking your business elsewhere.
Trying to be an ethical consumer is great, but it's just not the same as a boycott.
The potential for those consumers to actually come back may make their absence more powerful, too. Maybe people should focus on making that part of their message - as well as some positive reinforcement of companies who make changes without the need for a boycott or other pressure. It really shouldn't take that kind of action to get companies to, ya know, not let their workers get hurt, or treat customers equally. But companies are just groups of people coming together to make money. And people looking for money can be really sh***y.
Then the major determinant between a preference and a boycott is the customer belief in whether the company will change, which makes sense. I'll never buy from the clothing brand Pact again, because their fair trade claims seem like greenwashing and I just don't think they have incentives to change
You're right
"buycott" :)
This is such a good point and I admit to making this mistake in the past. Boycotts are tools of organized resistance, not just refusal to shop somewhere.
I particularly like the educational aspect mentioned here. Obviously boycotts draw strength from the numbers of participants, but trying to win people to your side purely by scaring, shaming, or bullying them is not effective in the long run. Making sure you present the situation accurately and give reasons for long-term effort is what will change things in the end.
My grandparents were part of the Farm Worker’s strike in the 1960s. My mom likes to joke that she went 10 years without eating grapes! Even today, my family doesn’t really buy them because we don’t have the taste for them lol
This is really important information that should be known by those organizing the boycotts, but unfortunately . . . lots of the organizers *don't* have this background information. It's not as simple as not buying a product or not buying from a company - it's more nuanced than that. And what's worse is how it can become a matter of morality and superiority very quickly, especially on platforms like Twitter, where one can be denounced or shamed for not taking part. Which, again, leads into the second point. If people don't understand what's at stake and what the impact will actually be, what the entire goal is, then of course they're not going to participate. You can't just expect "trust me, I know best" to be your argument for somebody to boycott. They need to have information.
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Moral or superiority dimensions work too, maybe better if the organizers are looking long term.
Coors beer faced an official boycott in the 80s, partial success... the bigots lost/gave up control of the company. But the moral boycott continues... still hard to find Coors beer in gay bars in the US in 2024. Bud Lite and Harley Davidson may feel moral/superiority effects on sale turn into general popularity & the loss of brand loyalty without an organized effort around DEI employee policies.
On my Blackest Skin…. Thank you PBS for mentioning and involving Claudette in the bus boycott movement. I wept so hard to know her story and for a while couldn’t get behind Rosa. Thank you for mentioning such a pivotal historical black person.
TL;DW: They work best in concentrated efforts and over short periods of time, and larger companies will feel it less. Additionally, you won't have much control organizing a boycott unless you have practice organizing other types of political movements.
Growing up in the middle east, we learned about boycotts really young. What is frustrating seeing this unfold is how often people don't understand the importance of targeted boycotts, and not treating collective action like an individual thing, it takes time and work and strategy for boycotts to work. Free Gaza! Free Palestine.
It's frankly scary the extent to which people don't understand how boycott's work. A one-month "boycott" is not going to convince the store to do what you want. Especially given that the store knows it's going to end. (It would also do more good if you pick a target that people can afford to boycott. Protesting high grocery prices by going after the most affordable stores - especially when they often have an effective monopoly in a given market - isn't going to work, because too few few people are capable of participating.)
It's also important (long-term) that the goals of the boycott not change. Like with any other form of resistance, if the company does what you want, and then you say "actually we'd like even more, we're going to continue the boycott", you've just drastically reduced the likelihood that they'll continue to listen, because they now don't see any point, because they assume you'll just keep moving the goalposts and boycotting no matter what they do.
My father was stationed at Maxwell AFB in Montgomery during the boycott. I remember little about it because I was very young but I seem to recall that my mother drove our maid back and forth. And my father took me along one time when we took food to someone affected by the action. Later, when I was in college and we lived back home in California, we stopped buying grapes for a long time to support the farmworkers' actions.
I went back to Montgomery several years ago and visited the Rosa Parks Museum. The tall man who had fingerprinted her (a famous picture) came in while I was there. He and the staff were all friends. It was wonderful to see that some people had progressed.
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Live frugally and you end up boycotting most things.
Yep this is me too. Unfortunately there's too many consoomers out there to take our place.
Self-control is the greatest power every person has the opportunity to wield.
I buy almost all my clothes and electronics used. I've never owned a car in my life. With the money I saved, I bought my own house.
At this point it's paid in full. My living expenses are so low that I'm semi-retired in my 40's.
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@@sebastianmallon343 Thanks, the present is all we have, better enjoy it while we can :)
I think the immediate financial impact of a boycott is less important, especially in the currently fragmented media environment, than the negative attention it can bring to a company, which can hurt its stock price long before any significant loss of sales is actually felt.
"Sociologists and political scientists have long viewed boycotts as an important (if not always successful) tool for those who lack the resources or access needed to participate in the formal political process, but this view needs rethinking. Positive first steps for those pursuing change are to be more selective in their targeting and to launch 'buycotts' that support firms that share their values. Though academic research has yet to systematically examine buycotts’ effects, they may be able to help buffer a firm’s reputation and performance. For example, the highest single day of revenue for Chick-fil-A came when its customers rallied to its defense following a highly publicized boycott.
As it stands now though, the boycott’s efficacy as a weapon of the disenfranchised is lessening in our increasingly polarized world, further reducing the limited power of those who feel that their voices go unheard." - Timothy Werner
Boycotts only work if you can organize enough people to participate.
And said company is not a Monopoly on the market for stuff we need to live like food or a specific clothing item.
@caseysmith544 that's when looting is an option.
Yeah you kind of have to, well, organize for a boycott to work. Just throwing up your hands and say "I'm boycotting" isn't doing anything
Amazon, Chick-fil-A, Starbucks, Nestlé. And a purely personal one: Taco Bell.
I’ve been joining the Starbucks boycott, both on purpose and not on purpose. I’d much rather get a good quality $5 mocha or late from a local cafe than whatever Starbucks is selling.
I remember hearing that apparently Starbucks no longer really considers itself to be a cafe. They’ve have taken away tables and chairs and replaced them with more goods to sell and a longer line. I like being able to go somewhere to chill and drink coffee, eat food that’s home made, and maybe draw or work on something.
"no taxation without representation" is ironic considering Puerto Rico, Guam, and Washington DC.
Watch out for chocolate, some of it is harvested with slave and child labor 😢
Yeah never mind apple products, Nike, temu, Amazon....all making billions off slave labor communist China.
Just watch out for the chocolate 😂😂😂
Some? 98% are
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I "boycott" fast fashion because I don't want clothes that deteriorate after a few wears. When I'm a wrinkly(...er...) old lady I want to try on something I've had for 50 years. 😹
I've boycotted Chick-fil-a and Hobby Lobby for a long time. I'm boycotting Israeli products too. I also try to avoid anything that supports the Catholic Church, but of course that's much older and bigger than any of these other institutions so boycotting isn't going to actually affect it.
Chick-fil-A I got screwed one time going in one becuse the Tie-dye shirt I was wearing was in Rainbow stripes of the colors for the LGBTA+ flag in the mid 2010's. This was in Ohio in a super Rest stop area, the one with the famous writer from Ohio his quote his words on the stations for left & right sides of the road window that the Chick-fil-A has been replaced with a Bagel Bros last I was there in 2023. Odd as the place has/had a Popeyes I got food from after the boot out and left so was not surprised the Chick-fil-A left or particular one stopped making money. I also avoid Chipotle due to multiple times the food being recalled and go for Qdoba's despite Qdoba's Buying out Chipotle around 2013--2014 or both deciding on a mutual merger, the Chipotle has kept getting people sick with food and bottled/can beverage recalls where as Qdoba's has only had 1 in this time for buying same cheese as Qdoba's.
Man, I haven’t been in a Chick-fil-a or Hobby Lobby in years. I used to go there a lot as a kid so it a terrible shame that their ownership is bigoted. I don’t agree with the BDS movement but at the very least it helps me find brands to supports that share my Zionist values, or even better are Jewish and/or Israeli owned.
So sorry to inform you, but your use of a computer or cellphone to type your comment means you are not boycotting all Israeli products.
Tbh I never hear of anyone in Canada collectively boycotting something. It probably needs to be a girlcott for it to work.
Another problem is getting the executive class to acknowledge it was their choices that led to a boycott. They're so detached from the struggles of everyday people and so arrogant, they'll blame everyone else but themselves. Then you have to worry about what they'd to to counter the lost profits. If a boycott cost a company a billion dollars, the execs would lay people off or cut corners before even considering cutting their own salaries, then go to the shareholders and brag about what a good job they did this quarter bringing down costs.
All and all, boycotting is no longer effective because it ultimately depends on a group of people admitting they were wrong.
I don't watch Tubi because I don't support Faux News and Rupert Murdoch. I'm staying strong in spite of the fact that 8 Mile is on there.
OK, let’s get one thing straight; the Irish were feeding the UK empire with their agricultural products and labor in mines and mills while their rents, taxes, and expenses went up. At the same time, they were being low balled in ag markets and kicked off their land. THAT’S why they ‘boycotted’.
Bettridge’s law.
If modern boycotting worked, Anheuser Busch would have fired their marketing department, Chik-Fil-A would be bankrupt, and Nestle would have divested a long time ago.
they just stated why they work those boycotts didnt work because they need all 4 pillars to be effective
fantastic episode
They do when people actually boycott rather than remain feckless consumers. See videogame microtransactions vs live services/MMO-ification for example. It's like asking if quarantines or dishwashers work. Yeah, when people do it right.
Been boycotting several large game publishers for a few years now due to bad management, shady business practices, and lack of innovation. Feels like a world has opened up by focusing on smaller publishers and indie games.
I have never eaten Chick Fil A, and refuse to do so until they stop contributing to anti-LGBT activist groups and legislators. There are two near me, and they smell amazing, but F those guys.
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Thank you.
Viz Media.
I have boycotted that company indefinitely.
I remember educating my brother about the plight of the farm workers during the boycott and its aftermath. He was shocked.
As someone who loves studying about unions & activism, the fact that I didn't know about the UFW is more proof of how much they bury all information about how to actually organize for change.
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Who’s here after hearing about the massive boycott of brands that support Israel & IDF?
Yes. Download "No Thanks" to find out which companies to boycott.
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I want to avoid threats to my livelihood.
I want to avoid an argument.
I also don’t know anything about politics.
And I am one person trying to learn about the history of boycotting.
Innocents are suffering.
Let them live happily.
Please.
And that’s why it won’t work :)
@@ferretyluv They're just too poorly thought out. They're doing more damage to the local economy than to the corporate HQ, and all as an indirect way to change the policy of a foreign company. How Starbucks closing their stores in Israel is going to put pressure on that country to end the war in Gaza is a large leap.
BDS and other Pro-Palestinian boycotts are often the very definition of "how not do boycotts" making every single mistake. They tend to be: 1 way to ambitious, 2. Include way too many global brands with only a small miniscule presence in the conflict. 3. Shy away from boycotting the massive amounts of russian-Israeli wealth as the BDS movement has a lot of fringe russia supporters, despite general consumer population in the west having a very low opinion of russia 4. A hatred towards "untrendy" poorer and middleclass consumers who consume McD, Papa Johns, Burger King and Pepsi, while being silent about exotic traveling influencers who fly on Boeing plane routes or anything that russia and the Saudis have a major stake in. 5. Anti-Semittism, in the form of companies that have Jews in their leader/ownership and little to no involvment in the conflict being targeted: Disney, Starbucks and HP got on the lists because of who ran them, not because their competitor were behaving any better. 6. Not understanding that most agricultural product are heavily subsidised, menaing boycotts actual save the government money, while making the population more hostile to the cause.
Vote with your dollars, right?
I've taken part in multiple boycott movements, many of which were unsuccessful. I remember doing a big boycott while South Africa still had apartheid. I had a list of the brands of consumer products that I took with me whenever I shopped for stuff. This went of for years. Seems like it worked fairly well.
I can't boycott, I'm not their customer in the first place
Lidl is selling Avocados from Israel! I'm now boycotting Lidl!
Ok thanks it was driving me crazy given the timing of the posting of this video and the subject matter not to see one mention of it nor in the video or the comments. It hurts the level of ignoring, people don’t seem to care about Arab lives.
I can't be sure my boycotts actually affect the companies involved, but still I do them as my only hope of registering my beliefs and my protest: Chick-fil-a, Hobby Lobby, Home Depot.
Oh no, what did Home Depot do? :(
@@chickensalad3535 They are apt to give money to the same political causes as the other two. I find Lowe's somewhat less repugnant, so I go to them.
@@chickensalad3535The HD owner gave big bucks to trump. I also try to avoid giving my hard-earned money to these three businesses
@@dale3404 Damn, that sucks.
@@chickensalad3535I agree. You do what you gotta do, though.
Does contentious consumerism count as participating in a boycott? When facing a choice - say, California v Peruvian asparagus or independent v chain retailers - does "buy local" fit the definition of a boycott?
Also, Walmart should not be allowed to continue to exist.
I think they should but being forced to split up the company into 7 independent parts, Sams choice/all Walmart owned food brands as own company, Walmart only brands that Walmart is the Owner of company like George or Athletec as one company, then the Food/Drink along with supplement Food/Drink portion as one company, then the clothing and rest of store as one company then the TV and other electronics companies Walmart bought out should be another company, then last online needs to be its own company, all 7 as independent companies.
@@caseysmith544 its vendor practices & employee relations as well as its lobbying are why it should not exist. Not broken into several equally vile businesses. It's very existence proves Americans are entirely selfish creatures. Railroad barons of the 1890s had more compassion than owners & shoppers of Walmart. Once it's gone, Amazon is next. Samsung, Cargill, Nestle, etc... people brought down the British Empire, so this should be simple.
International general strike for a 26 hour, 4 day week
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the answer is,
yes.
they do work.
Not in the modern day and not for big enough companies. Otherwise, Budweiser would have gone out of business and Nestle would be bankrupt.
Just another excuse from the CEO because of their bad business practices. Skimming product quality/quantity from shrinkflation. It's also an excuse to cut off labour workers and reducing the min wage.
Very good and informative history here!
Good information. Makes sense. I'm boycotting Iaraeli affiliated products. I have my list of those products and companies when I shop. I will never buy those products again and update my list as needed. (Compamy name changes and company product relabeling)
Great to hear. This is the only way to effect change and stop the killing.
That's a great strategy, thank you for sharing!
Do you mean Israeli? Why?
You’re going to have to get rid of the computer or cellphone you typed this on. Sorry!
@@user-nz7ti9ch9p Alarmist nonsense 🙄
Best boycott song was "Sun City" by Artists United Against Apartheid. Video is amazing.
Judging by the fact that none of the companies in the thumbnail have had to change in any way... no boycotts do not work. I still don't wanna give my money to these people though.
They literally showed examples where it worked. They also mentioned boycotts usually don’t work and they are hard to mount effective boycotts
It depends on what one's goal is when boycotting and in fact, I guess the bigger goal overall too.
If you can shift at the very least your habits, that isn't fully a failed attempt. Maybe it doesn't strike at the heart of the intended goal, but even just my boycotting has filtered into other people's behavior. Because if we have to stop and get a thing do a thing, grab some food, I don't tell them that they have to do what i'm doing in most cases, but they generally will, because we have other options and they're trying to include me.
Or if they want to perform a kind gesture, people knowing what I do/don't like means they're not going to those places/ brands to get me something. If they were going to get themselves something at the same time, they're likely gonna do that from the place/ brand they went to for me. Then habits form and they might realize they like this. Other thing better or that the thing that they wish they were doing in. The first place wasn't that hard.
I get, that's not the main goal of a boycott, but it feels like a worthwhile enough outcome to still go through with it.
They only mean anything if the population either go along with it or just don’t interfere with it.
i boycott but as you mentioned with facebook situation? i never truely know or realize what what belongs to what company and it’s so hard and exhausting to keep up with these mega corporations😢
Ethical shopping should just be the automatic choice for consumers, but they have to pay attention and be more committed than half-assed lip service and liking comments about it on social media sites whose owners have no ethics themselves.
Social media boycotts seem ineffective now, as numerous accounts are suspended. Companies allege ToS violations without clarification. Though I hope it's not the case, it seems our online legal rights are not as robust as those offline.
thx for the tips. free palestine
Civil disobedience would be an interesting video, related to this subject
I’d like to point out that the settler americans refusing to pay britian taxes WAS a racist boycott. Their actual issue was that britian signed a treaty not to commit genocide and colonialism west of the Mississippi. But the settlers wanted to settle the west banks and beyond so they settled and colonized. So britian created taxes to cover the military express of protecting settlers breaking the treaty. So they boycotted and fought a war not for independence but for the right to colonize and commit genocide.
Yes! It’s kinda weird they didn’t mention that
I don’t blindly believe anything I read online but I’m certainly going to research this. Lots of things painted as positive from the past often have some darker context that’s been ignored if it favors the party that won
@@Homer-OJ-Simpson 1763 treaty of Paris is where you start.
8:34 - Okay, one cannot possibly compare boycotting an ethnicity with boycotting a nation. People are not their countries of origin. People here want a new way of life, almost always our way. Many are even escaping their country of origin. Countries are not people, they are representations of a relative handful of powerful people with immense power unto themselves.
Countries are always fair game. If they don't play nice a boycott is fair.
I boycotted beef when Opera was being sued for saying that she'd be cautious eating beef while the mad cow disease was in full swing.
Not one mention of BDS? Not one?
Exactly, shocking.
have you ever taken part of a boycott? let google know now
OK.
yeh
So the big Disney boycott over them being LGBTQ+ inclusive were...basically noise and foul wind.
I feel like QUITE a few of the boycotts that I do hear about are mostly people trying to be Karens, rather than legit trying to make workers' lives better or really any other cause.
I've been buycotting Trader Joe's for their union policies for over a year, now, I think it's been. Starbucks, too.
I boycott the meat industry by not eating any, ever
Same! Are you Vegan? If so, I am too 🌱 😊
McDonald’s messed up my double quarter pounder the other day. One patty was smashed to ground beef and the other was burnt. I’m boycotting them because of one bad experience. Forget that the cook may have had a terrible day!! :) I’m just kidding about boycotting. I’m going to show some grace and write it off as a bad day.
Why millions is identified as "MM"? If the first "M" is mega, what is the second "M"?
I didn't notice what in the video you're referring to, but M is the Roman numeral for 1000, so perhaps it works out to being "one thousand thousands"
No mention of BDS?
Exactly, thank you.
Exactly, thank you.
I've been boycotting Mcdonald's for 10 years as of 2024, not that it's done anything.
Mazlum insanlar için boykot, lütfen 😢
Avocados and beef, but like, not completely. Does that count?
Must be nice to have the last name for the win xp
In this economy, every day is a boycott day when you can't afford to buy things!
consume less in general
overproduction of frivolous consumer junk is strangling our ecosystem
I know that boycotts work, because new local cola brands have emerged in Turkiye, especially since Coke Cola is being boycotted for Gaza.
Wow! That's wonderful to hear! It's so hard to make a dent in such a big company, especially for such a big and complicated cause. That's probably the education aspect that you guys have going that we lack in countries like the US and UK.
I’m glad that Coca Cola has been steadfast in not caving to ridiculous demands.
You do realize Coca Cola makes more than just soda, right? 😂
I like to see capitalis corporate fallen
what if we all boycot our goverments so they have to tax the ultra rich for money
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Boycotting coca cola right now and their other products
PepsiCo owns basically every drink brand (overexaggerating)
Don't buy trash products
Free Palestine!
Disappointed but not surprised at the lack of BDS mention tbh. But then, some states just flaunt their 1st amendment and have laws against it so. :T
The McDonald's boycott worked. McDonald's terminated the franchise agreement for the franchise owner that was providing food to the IOF.
Boycott Herbalife cafe shops.
Not just boycott, we imposed sanction actually and cut ties at all.
I love boycotts. All it took was some creepy dude saying he thinks he is a woman and the price of beer went way, way down! Things are cheap if you buy the cheap stuff that is the same as the name brand logos. I got a phone at Walmart for $40 that does everything that one that costs 10x+ that does. It is very cheap to live but it is a trend for the misinformed to complain that it isn't. Some people can afford wants and then complain about basic needs.
The only boycott that worked was the one that Rosa Parks is known for.
Clearly you've never noticed how Europe boycotted Jews for 2000 years. They've been very successful, I mean they litteraly exiled european Jews into a land they have little ties with and made them think it's theirs
Only you're wrong. And it's not even particularly hard to find out.
What IS it with you low value humans and your absolute confidence in yourselves?
The point is not whether or not boycotting "works." but whether or not you want to participate in and contribute to actions that you disagree with.
If you’re not trying to effect a specific change as a specific movement, then it’s not a boycott. You’re just making a consumer choice.
It has, and will keep on working. BDSso that we can freePalestine, Sudan & the Congo from apartheid&genocide
BDS 🇵🇸
Bigotry Destruction Shame
@@chickensalad3535 so we know what side you're on.
@@acmulhern Yes, I’m very proud about my Zionism.
@chickensalad3535 so you support the horrors of colonialism, the fact that native Europeans are "the superior race" and the decimation of indigenous people, including innocent children?
Maybe you should be careful before publicly saying that you're proud of your ideologies. The KKK wears hoods for a reason.
I want to boycott something...not sure what though. I'll have to read through the comments here to see what is on the agenda..or who is on the chopping block.
The way this video was written to never say "BDS" or "Israel/Palestine"
Because why give attention to or legitimize a bigoted and harmful movement?
@@chickensalad3535 i guess giving attention to Israel has some downsides. But as the video said, boycotting is one of our most powerful tools to end apartheid, and in this case, genocide. Approximately 1/3 of people in the world are boycotting something because of the genocide!!! To not mention this historic moment, to just silently let it be obvious context.... its definitely interesting
@@buildinganewworld2682 uh, that’s not what @chickensalad3535 meant.
@@buildinganewworld2682 I’m referring to the BDS movement 😂
@@user-nz7ti9ch9p when someone says "bigotted and harmful movement" i assume they can only mean Zionism or some other form of genocidal fascism. You are probably mistaken 😜