[worik]

> History shows mere boycotts to always be abysmal failures one after another

The South African apartheid regime was brought down by boycotts.

The Israeli genocide regime will suffer the same fate if there is any justice left in the world.

Boycotts are very powerful. Users boycotting ads is dismantling the surveillance web.

[zorked]

It wasn't just boycotts, however and unfortunately. The South African army was defeated militarily by FAPLA-Cuba. There's a reason why Nelson Mandela's first visit as chief of state was to thank Fidel Castro in person.

[bigfatkitten]

South Africa didn’t have the U.S. Government and its allies actively propping it up, and punishing anyone who tried to boycott it.

[linguae]

The history is a little more complicated than this…it is true that South Africa was eventually sanctioned by the US for its apartheid policies, and this helped lead to the end of apartheid. However, the US supported South Africa during much of the Cold War period as a bulwark against communism. Some US politicians were willing to look the other way when it came to apartheid before support for South Africa became increasingly politically difficult.

[autobodie]

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