re: #293 wrenchwench

Thanks for reminding me of what I wanted to reply to. (Watch that participle dangle!)

[pleasant customer interruption.]

The point of a one day boycott is to show that a boycott can happen. It should be followed by a major buy-in the next day, to emphasize the smallness of the day before.

I try to remember to eat grapes because we boycotted them forever when I was a kid in California (in support of the United Farm Workers, who I follow on twitter—everything comes around to something.)

There have been one-day boycotts of Twitter before (Leslie Jones, &c). I predict no follow through, and Twitter knows that.

Folks who use Twitter aren’t willing to give it up, and seeing racism, death and rape threats, and such are the price of convenience.

I’ll believe it when I see an actual boycott (cancelling accounts, &c). Saying I won’t go to the store for one day in protest and going back the next is not a boycott. It’s not even a statement: They still get money.