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by dtertman 3432 days ago
Here's the right calling for a boycott of Starbucks because they had the gall to say they would hire refugees: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/food/wp/2017/01/30/starb...

Here's the right calling for a boycott of GrubHub, Pepsi, Oreos, and Netflix over slights to Trump: https://thinkprogress.org/trump-pepsi-grubhub-boycotts-ca810...

These are five examples since November. There are thousands. Both sides are equally childish.

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I've never heard of any of these. So the mainstream media has not really picked up on them and they pretty much have no steam on Twitter. Is anyone actually following through?

"These are five examples since November"

These are boycotts of very large companies, which happen all the time. I'm talking more about the harassment of individuals, the trolling of their employers (to get them fired), and the boycotting of small companies. Most of the info leading the charge for these are based on half-truths, libel, and rumors.

The Mozilla CEO was harassed and fired for donating a small amount of money years earlier to a political campaign. He wasn't harassing or being prejudice against anyone and a reporter had to search long and hard to find out about his political donations. I've never seen anyone on the right single out an individual and get them fired over something like this.

This sort of behavior needs to stop and another problem is that nobody will admit it's an actual problem.