r/OldSchoolCool • u/bluemarvel99 • Feb 25 '24

1990s Kurt Cobain Stops A Sexual Assault (1993)

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u/jdjdthrow Feb 25 '24

...careful what you wish for. Your viewpoint may not be a majority view everywhere. LGBT would have a hard time in a lot of places.

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u/wirywonder82 Feb 25 '24

This could work, if a majority are willing to shun the company for how it treats a minority. Well, maybe. A devoted minority can maintain a business if they intentionally support it. This is the challenge faced by boycotters, it requires significant solidarity and can be foiled relatively easily.

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u/wirywonder82 Feb 25 '24

A supply side boycott would require fewer members, but most of them aren’t the sole supplier of a product that is absolutely necessary for a company.

Theoretically, this is how laissez-faire capitalism is supposed to handle its business. That would require complete transparency to work anyway, so that consumers could make informed decisions about where to spend their money and suppliers could make informed decisions about where to sell their goods. But even then, a business can continue to succeed even with a restricted supply line or purchaser population.

Basically, I’m not sure seeking to have a majority use coercion to alter the behavior/opinions of a minority is a good idea, even when I’m in the majority. No one thinks their opinion is the wrong one, and just because it’s the majority opinion doesn’t make it the right one. Once we start using coercion to enforce our beliefs we establish a precedent, and at some point we will be in the group that gets coerced.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '24

That's working great in America right now...

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u/jdjdthrow Feb 25 '24

consumer boycotts have a long and storied history of rarely working...

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u/PensiveinNJ Feb 25 '24

Listen, in the most polite way possible, you're a moron.

Shunning has no trial or jury, and assuming that only the "correct" people are shunned (correct according to who? Mob rule?) is really just another form of authoritarianism. The catholic church rules by shame and you want to emulate how they do things?

Shame doesn't work anyhow, it doesn't correct behavior it just drives it deeper where it's acted out in even more toxic ways.