My vision for this community is a space where people can encourage others to vote with their dollar and with their feet by educating them on the fucked up shit that people and companies are doing. When the community reaches 500 members, mods will also select one “cause” at a time for the community to support.
If this sub grows it will need more mods, so please reach out if you’re a perpetually pissed off person. :)
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Even though it usually doesn’t make a difference, I’d agree because it’s the whole point of the community.
That’s a huge generalization from someone who’s enjoying many of the benefits brought about by activism.
From the text description I was assuming this is boycott-focused. None of the successful past movements I can think of used boycotting specifically. Civil disobedience, labour actions and basically terrorism were more characteristic, off the top of my head. Running for office too, once they’d beaten the old aristocracy down enough to be able to.
The thing is maybe a few percent of the population are activists, so you either have to take advantage of the people that are sympathetic but don’t really care or be obnoxious enough on your own that you can’t be ignored (for better or worse).
It usually doesn’t result in the immediate attainment of all the protests’ aims. It quite often makes some kind of difference
I feel like most of the boycott efforts I’ve seen start have been nothingburgers. Things like the Bud Light boycott or the Chick-fil-A boycott started a conversation, at least, but I didn’t say never.
That being said, I’m not sure what the best form of activism actually is.