Boycotts work better than protests

[Proud liberal 80]

As much as I respect protesters and their rights to do it, the more I think about it boycotts work better....not just what the athletes are doing (depriving people of their entertainment), but boycotting certain stores, restaurants, and products...people don’t care when they see thousands of people marching, but will care once it’ starts affecting their pockets or comfort life. Just think of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

[calguy]

1. Protests have a way of becoming counter productive real fast.

[msongs]

2. there are reasons why this street action takes place after midnight nt

[Iliyah]

3. If you control the purse . .

Peaceful protesters will still be the present and the future.

[ret5hd]

4. Boycott The Police

How does that work?

FTP
ACAB

[JI7]

5. What do the right wingers do if they can't have sports ?

[Proud liberal 80]

6. I would love

To see the black SEC and ACC football players boycott, that would really affect them and drive them crazy....the NBA not so much because they probably don’t watch anyway

[Ferrets are Cool]

8. Unfortunately, it's not gonna happen.

IMO Seems as though the football players are more "indoctrinated" than other sports.

[MichMan]

11. Hard for Big 10 athletes in my region to mount an effective boycott

when the entire season has been cancelled

NFL fans around here have been boycotting the Lions for years

[Cuthbert Allgood]

13. So the assumption is that sports is RW entertainment?

I don't get it.

[JI7]

17. No, Right Wingers don't do much else. Liberals have other forms of entertainment

they enjoy also.

[Mossfern]

7. Absolutely

and morning protests, ending way before dark.

[vapor2]

9. I, for one, can surely boycott

My Pillow and Goya.

[muntrv]

10. I am boycotting the RNC convention. No need to boost their ratings.

[maxrandb]

12. I have an idea that might make the protests actually achieve something

Leave the Federal Buildings and Downtown Squares alone.

Find the studios and offices of your local Hate Radio station... trust me, you have at least one in your city or town ... march and protest on the sidewalks in front of them. Boycott their advertisers, local and national.

Look, when George Zimmerman needed a place to tell America what a "great guy" he was, and highlight Trayvon Martin's marijuana use, he turned to your local Hate Radio station.

When Michael Brown was killed, Hate Radio was there to tell you how big and scary he was... and that he took some cigarillos from the store.

Eric Gardner, George Floyd...in every case, Hate Radio can be counted on to excuse or justify the injustice.

Want to hear your wife, sister, daughter or mother described as a "slut"? Hate Radio will take care of that for you.

Want to laugh along with the song "Barack the Magic Negro"? Hate Radio has you covered.

Make fun of people dying from AIDS? Check, got that covered too.

Do you know that there are over 80 colleges and universities, and multiple pro sports teams that broadcast their sports on Hate Radio stations that offer nothing but racism, hate, misogyny and ignorance for the rest of the week?

It's all great that the NBA players are boycotting the playoffs right now, but I wonder if they know that their games are broadcast on Hate Radio stations that offer nothing else but Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and whatever other cookiecutter hate radio host they can find.

"Stay tuned as LeBron takes on James Harden, but first here's Rush to decribe the Democratic Party candidates as Joe and the Ho"

Want to know why there's so much hate and intolerance in this country?

Want to know why armed rednecks are emboldened to cosplay Soldier of Fortune on our streets? Hate Radio calls them patriots.

No, if you want to have an impact on changing the tone in this country, the downtown square is not the answer.

The megaphone is coming from within your own house.

[crickets]

14. 👆👆 I like the cut of your jib, maxrandb! Genius. 👆👆

[gulliver]

15. Fighting them with protests is what the bad guys want.

They want us merely protesting police, for example, instead of protesting the Republican Party power and criminal justice system that it is the life blood for.

Protest for a while, sure. Get these terrible things in the news. Then back off, register to vote, and obliterate the Republicans in November. That's what the bad guys don't want.

[bullwinkle428]

16. I'm pretty sure John Lewis said we could do both effectively.