As is now painfully obvious from my Twitter ban, boycotts tend to make the shunned more popular.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.
I believe boycotts are wrong.
Boycott is not a principle. When it becomes one, it itself risks becoming exclusive and racist. No boycott, in our sense of the term, should be directed against an individual, a people, or a nation as such.
A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either actively or tacitly. Its aim is not to reject, but to bring about change.
A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.
Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its products.
It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.
Shake any institution of higher learning, and a dozen boycotters will fall out of it.
At the end of the day, the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott had to be converted into the 1964 Civil Rights Act. We don't want politicians who've gotta be coaxed, cajoled and protested. We want them on our side from the beginning.
I can say unequivocally that the boycott does not work. It's never complete enough to have impact unless it's backed by force, and I don't think anybody in America seriously proposes that.