so many wizards: Why Black March Is a Really Fucking Bad Idea

kilomonster:

korybing:

postcardsfromspace:

To the people proposing this:

You dumb bastards. You know who this’ll hurt? Not big media. Not on any significant scale.

No, the people this will really fuck over are the EXACT same people SOPA and PIPA would fuck: Creative professionals; small…

The only thing I disagree with about the original post is the implications that consumers can’t affect corporations through boycott. The last thing we really need is to believe that we can’t influence these guys with our dollars.

That said, I’ve already said my peace on supporting independents and progressive companies.

I believe that consumers can influence corporations through boycott, but I don’t think they can the way that Black March is trying to. Telling everyone to just not buy stuff for a month, but when that month is up then hey, go buy it, isn’t going to do anything but cause a big sales spike in those corporations in April, which is the opposite of what the boycott is trying to do.

Protesting against companies that support things you don’t agree with is like a diet, You can’t just purge and go back to your normal eating habits, you gotta change your habits and keep at it. Stop buying from them wholesale and don’t go back to buying them after an arbitrary number of days is up.

Now I think I’m rambling. It’s not that I think “don’t even try to protest, there’s nothing you can do,” it’s just that I think protesting in the way that the Black March image spells out is very short sighted and will end up hurting more than helping.

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   again. Reblogging in case anyone missed...first few times. I’m still seeing

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   ^This. Additionally:...GiantCompany reports significant cuts for

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    still participate in black march...media/content straight

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    Yup. That’s how my friends and I saw it. We would stop buying stuff from large corporations and instead buy those same...

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    This. I reblogged originally because fuck I never buy shit hahahahaha, all the shit I do buy is from small or local...

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    I heard there was some sort of app that allows you to scan barcodes and get told whether the manufacturer supports...

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    thought it would be a good idea to reblog...counterargument- Like- Black march

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