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I’m sure I would have a different opinion if I was around for the consumer South Africa boycott and feeling like that succeeded but nothing remotely close to t
by yieldcrv 2y ago
I’m sure I would have a different opinion if I was around for the consumer South Africa boycott and feeling like that succeeded
but nothing remotely close to that has occurred in 30 years and trade is more interlinked as not to really affect countries the same way even if it did occur
with that in mind, how I feel is that harboring that sentiment requires having major blind spots about all the other places you do business with. and the disdain is 100% misapplied to other people or your employer. For example, its one thing if its the Prince’s investment fund, its another thing if its a random private equity fund or private office in Saudi Arabia. The boycotter’s broad, cognitively negligent, generalizations seem far more insensitive than the person disregarding their complaints about human rights abuses.
- data_maan 2y agoSo you don't feel it is an issue, when you say "prince fund bad, random fund good" that it is fraught with all kinds of ethical issues to bring money and knowhow into a country that has public beheadings?
- yieldcrv 2y agoah exhibit A: and The West has public extrajudicial executions, as well as semi-public ones more formally …where is your boycott of Silicon Valley? you don’t feel it is an ethical issue to bring money and knowhow into that country? which country passes your standard exactly
- hashiyakshmi 2y agoA laughable false equivalance, at least in the West you won't be executed for "crimes" such as apostasy and homosexuality.
- yieldcrv 2y agowhy would you not do business with private organizations in one country but not the other over what the state enables? why would you vilify other people choosing to do business with those private organizations based on their nexus?
- data_maan 2y agoBecause there are levels of brutality, that's why! It doesn't just matter that you kill people, it also matter for what, and how! And public beheadings are truly medieval and barbaric.