• stankmut@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    My constructive suggestion was for people to stop saying they are unintentionally boycotting things. It just seems self-congratulatory and smug and every boycott discussion is just choked with those comments.

    I was writing third paragraph about how if you aren’t shopping somewhere that is being boycott, you can help by spreading the word. I deleted it once when I had the realization that it doesn’t matter what I say, the next boycott post will have the same comments and that I’m getting worked up over something I can’t change.

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      4 days ago

      Yeah I mean it sounds like your feedback is “stfu” and that’s not very helpful 😅

      “Unintentionally boycotting” messages do have value. If people can live without these companies on accident, it gives people hope that it will be easy to join the boycott.