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This deplatforming and this "cancel culture" is only a manifestation of what millenials heard for years: if you want change, vote with your wallet. Well, we now
by orwin 6y ago
This deplatforming and this "cancel culture" is only a manifestation of what millenials heard for years: if you want change, vote with your wallet. Well, we now are able to. I'm not agreeing with everything, but boycott is the only power my generation have right now, and nobody can prevent this.
Twitter and the social network allowed people to have reach to explain why they're boycotting this or that, share their outrage, sometime about really dumb things, but still with their own reasons.
- moistly 6y agoIt seems to me that the only powers we have are the ballot box, our wallets, and bullets. And in the USA, I'm not so sure about the former, what with all the corruption. Want to see real change? General strike. Shut it all down and watch the powers freak out.
- 082349872349872 6y agoBoycotting has been proposed in previous generations. In Martin Luther King's last speech before he was cancelled, he suggested boycotting businesses until such time as they were willing to treat all God's children fairly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23414101 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23414101 "All we say to America is to be true to what you said on paper."