You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.
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.
As is now painfully obvious from my Twitter ban, boycotts tend to make the shunned more popular.
Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its products.
I as an elected official would never recommend anybody to boycott any city or state.
I think the people should have a right to boycott whoever they want to boycott without the government making them into criminals and try to protect corporations from people. They should protect people from corporations.
The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation.
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.