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Grammy Awards Open Thread

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Dark_Falcon2/12/2012 11:07:21 pm PST

re: #445 palomino

OK, the protesters are not “asking”, they’re “demanding”, or they’re “demanding that Starbucks demand…”, except that they really are asking because they’re in no position to demand anything of a private corp. So what you’re really upset about is that they’re asking impolitely, in the form of a one-day boycott.

And MY point is that a one-day boycott is nothing to get worked up over. It’s a pretty mild form of democratic protest. It’s hardly the “nastiness” that you described above.

I’m not worked up about it. I’m not going to rant or rave, I’m just going to make a counter-protest statement by buying from Starbucks on Tuesday with $2 bills. And that’s all that is being proposed by me: No calls to “fight leftist oligarhy”, just a call to stage an appropriate and non-confrontational counter protest.