![]() ![]() Maybe boycotts don’t work, though that really depends on your definition of work, and whether you demand total failure of the product/collapse of the company or a more realistic decrease in profits and cultural power. But using products and services produced by those companies is not the same thing as buying a specific video game, produced by and profiting from a specific set of transphobic and anti-semitic creators, or a homophobic sandwich. There are some organizations whose reach is so all-pervasive that to boycott them entirely would cut people off from participating in society or even being able to feed themselves-which is obviously a problem and one of many that leftists are hoping to dismantle. The fact remains, however, that there’s a big difference between being forced to participate in a wholly unethical system (capitalism, in case that wasn’t clear) in order to survive, and spending money on non-essentials when that money will be used to benefit bigots and enable them to do continued harm to marginalized people. Hasan explains why some streamers, including him, are avoiding playing Hogwarts Legacy /ES6wgAxrDz- Dexerto February 7, 2023 “It’s not worth it to get bullied endlessly” A lot of them were self-proclaimed allies, people who asserted they loved their queer children/siblings/friends, but who found being asked to stop visiting a fast food chain a step too far. Some of those were the usual right-wing suspects, who hate queer people and actively support the same causes, but as pointed out, a lot of them weren’t. However, a whole lot decided that not only were they going to keep on eating Chik-fil-a but they were actually going to eat it more. Of course, some (mostly queer) people boycotted. ![]() To paraphrase Douglas Addams-this made a lot of people very angry. For those lucky enough not to remember 2011, that was the year that Chik-fil-A’s donations to multiple extremely homophobic organizations came out and LGBT+ people quite understandably asked their friends and family to stop eating there. ![]() A viral Tumblr post by a user going by that’s since jumped platforms to other social media channels, explains that the current discourse and nonsense surrounding Hogwarts Legacy is exactly like what happened when Chik-fil-A’s homophobia was first outed back in the day. ![]()
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