re: #265 Killgore Trout

Companies are wary of controversy, it cuts into profits. As we’ve seen with the Colbert thing it can be used against anybody, regardless of political affiliation. If, for some reason social attitudes change, it can also be used against progressives for making political contributions or taking part in legitimate political activity.

You act like this is some new thing, that never would have occurred on the opposite side of the aisle, when how many chain e-mails were out there about the business owner firing the folks with Obama bumper stickers following the election? Granted, they weren’t true ones - but the RWNJs love the idea of it.

At what point are you willing to actually make a stand for human rights? I mean, I asked you this the other day: where would you draw the line and refuse to give your money to someone? You said it depends; what does it depend on? So far it seems to be that if it would cause you inconvenience and the cause doesn’t directly affect you, you won’t bother and nobody else should either.