I genuinely don’t understand why the “boycott Starbucks because of Gaza” thing happened. It has no locations in Israel and isn’t on the BDS list. Did TikTokers just get their wires crossed with the union thing (which never called for a general boycott)?
I honestly think basically every totally disorganized boycott/general strike/whatever is just complete wrecker behavior
@kate i've seen about five different calls for three different general strikes in the past couple months
@kate there are a worrying number of less prolific but still generally embraced boycotts that have taken off even beyond Starbucks. Ive heard the names of so many companies just appended to boycott lists with what seems like no organisational impetus
@kate i think a big part of the problem is the people get wires crossed between “strikes and boycotts are tools to change the behavior of corporations” and a very christian morality “you are a bad person if you buy stuff from this company”
@kate oh they're always a disaster, especially when they're like one-day boycotts. It's a vehicle for poster activists to makes themselves feel morally righteous and like they're doing something when they're not. All it accomplishes is confusing people on what boycotts and "strikes" even are.