SanguiniusMagnificum said:
MinionJoe said:
SanguiniusMagnificum said:
Does that mean that I support Bob in his cuntitude (that's a word, right?)?
Actually, it does.
If you order Domino's pizza, some of that money goes to Tom Monaghan. Mr. Monaghan then uses that money to repress women's reproductive rights through several conservative, pro-life organizations. Therefore, if you give money to Dominos, you're funding the repression of women.
And if you pay to see Ender's Game, you're funding a person who is actively campaigning against gay rights and promoting seditious behavior in radial groups within the United States. And that's even if the pro-Nazi/Hitler-was-OK undertones of the Ender's Game series is just imaginative bullshit and not indicative of Card's actual beliefs.
Well mate, practically almost every product goes through something like this. Just bought the fancy new Xbone? Well, be happy to know that part of your money went to a bunch of African warlords that use child labor to extract some of the elements that are needed to make One!
Want to have a cold banana milkshake on a hot summer day? Be glad to know that your money is safe with Chiquita Brands International (a.k.a United Fruit Company), a company that once helped the US government to set up a bunch of military dictatorships in Latin-America and still has ties to severeal paramilitary groups in the region.
False dichotomy, people are entirely capable of boycotting more than one thing at a time. There's also the difference that Card is an American and is funding groups that directly effect Americans, so the conflict of interest can be directly observed and felt, rather than taking place in a foreign country with laws and leadership the average American citizen can't effect.
None of that changes the fact that gay people in the U.S. are directly opposed by Card, their issues are important to them, because it is something they are directly and currently lobbying or fighting for.
As a final note, both exploitative labor and conflict minerals have active boycotts against them,as well as a number of other movements, charities and awareness campaigns. Far larger than the movement against Card.
If your interested here's some links:
http://www.raisehopeforcongo.org/content/initiatives/conflict-minerals (charity and tracks boycott and ban information and stories, theres a number of groups trying to get major western countries to bad or restrict products using minerals from these areas)
http://www.siliconexpert.com/lp/conflict-minerals?gclid=CN_6yMLpy7oCFW1yQgod4T8A5w (here's a fun tool that lets business's track where their suppliers get their resources from, because business owners can be conscious of issues too, and often are)
http://joojoo-blog.blogspot.com/2013/09/social-action-sunday-alternatives-to.html (here's a blog for ideas, news, and boycotts on exploitative labor in the fashion industry)
http://www1.american.edu/ted/chocolate-slave.htm (maybe not bananas, how about a chocolate boycott for you, site is incredibly basic, but contains a number of links to charities and movements in the area to end exploitation)
See, maybe we can't boycott everything we hold even the slightest moral objection to, but there are people and organizations fighting these practices every day. It's your job as an intelligent consumer to pick and choose what ideals you are willing to advocate for.
For some people that's gay rights, for others it's ending child labor in Africa. It's better spread the manpower and money out, just throwing people and money at a problem has diminishing returns after a certain point.
On the other hand you seem to be advocating for doing nothing, just because we can't adequately fight every problem, doesn't mean we should just give up and do nothing. That helps nobody.