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Except everyone is being boycotted?

Didn't mean to rate that post...

I don't like the idea of voting on what's morally right by buying different beers 🍺

It seems like the kind of game that could reward points for siding with an approving mob.

Except everyone is being boycotted?

Not really. It’s noise.

I think the corporate marketing means we've hashed out the issues already. These multibillion companies certainly aren't' leading the charge on social change, they're camp followers.

I can't tell if they're following social trends or just looking for outrage in order to get free publicity.

If it's the former then fine, it means the marketplace will decide the ideas we normalize and accept. If it's the latter then we're screwed

There’s nothing wrong with making consumer choices that align with your values.

There’s a BBQ joint in my town I was going to try until I found out they are big freedumb convoy people. I don’t want to give those folks my money.

Of course there's nothing wrong with boycotts. And there's nothing wrong with people complaining about crazy trans folks like Jessica Yaniv in the media either.

But when these things crowd out other public social mechanics, it's a negative on the macro level.

It would be far better for us to have public conversations around morality, and moral policy, then to debate these things via Nike commercials and pictures of Rosa Parks on Pepsi cans.

It would be better for us to discuss trans policy in a public forum where wackos like Jessica or not mentioned.

Of course there's nothing wrong with boycotts. And there's nothing wrong with people complaining about crazy trans folks like Jessica Yaniv in the media either.

But when these things crowd out other public social mechanics, it's a negative on the macro level.

It would be far better for us to have public conversations around morality, and moral policy, then to debate these things via Nike commercials and pictures of Rosa Parks on Pepsi cans.

It would be better for us to discuss trans policy in a public forum where wackos like Jessica or not mentioned.

We live in a capitalist society and public conversations about morality will play out in that context whether you like it or not.

Besides I can't for the life of me picture what these "public conversations" you'd like to see would even look like in practice.

That's a sad reality, especially the death of imagination.

Well, can you expound on what you have in mind?