Boycotts are damaging when they had a very good reason to expect your loyalty and you become disloyal anyway
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The last point is there was a very clear thing the boycotters wanted - erasing the line between the black and white sections of the bus
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A goal that was simple, easy to do and - importantly - didn't objectively cost all that much
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That was really important. It gave an obvious exit strategy to both sides
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So the bus company could say "Fuck it, we're conceding this one thing" without unconditional surrender
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And, importantly, so the boycotters had a finish line in view
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If MLK had asked people to undergo tremendous personal hardship "until systemic racism is over" most of them wouldn't have even started
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So the typical boycott on the Internet is the opposite of that boycott in all these ways
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They're generally boycotts of discretionary purchases, where they expect customers to come and go as tastes change anyway
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They're stated as a way to just generally express disapproval as opposed to having a specific goal
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They're aimed at large and very well known brands with deep pockets that know how to hedge their bets
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And they're not organized in the meaningful sense
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A strike works bc it's organized. Telling people "Hey, if you work for this bad company, QUIT" does not work
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