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Famous actors have huge PR capabilities, they definitely can support labor efforts in other industries or help suppress it. Call for boycotts of union-busting c
by failuser 3y ago
Famous actors have huge PR capabilities, they definitely can support labor efforts in other industries or help suppress it. Call for boycotts of union-busting companies, help elect pro-union politicians and so on. Or be Ronald Regan and get elected and bust unions.
- delusional 3y agoThere's a danger in that sort of activism, and direct intervention often results in backlash. It's very hard to protest capitalism on the consumer side. It rarely works for protests that directly affect the consumer and I've never seen it work for proxy fights. I'm sure most actors do think they are making a positive difference through the films they choose to act in. I'm sure they believe in and push for messaging they think help people. I don't think they believe (rightly or not, i don't know) that they have the direct influence to "simply" help elect certain politicians.