The history of boycotts shows us that sustained boycotts can be enormously effective. During the civil rights movement, the Montgomery and Tallahassee bus boycotts ended racial segregation on local bus systems. Sustained boycotts were also instrumental in ending apartheid in South Africa.
Maybe we should give more credit to people doing imperfect things than to those doing nothing other than pointing out how imperfectly those things are.
Criticism is essential to building stronger movements, and any organizer worth their salt can handle criticism without an emotional outburst.
People doing things imperfectly can be more harmful than just not doing them at all. One-day boycotts damage the reputation of boycotts as a whole, which makes people more reluctant to participate in them because they view them as pointless and ineffective.
There are literally thousands of books about how to resist fascism. It has been a mainstream topic for decades now.
For starters:
Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook
On Tyranny
Fascism Today
The history of boycotts shows us that sustained boycotts can be enormously effective. During the civil rights movement, the Montgomery and Tallahassee bus boycotts ended racial segregation on local bus systems. Sustained boycotts were also instrumental in ending apartheid in South Africa.
Criticism is essential to building stronger movements, and any organizer worth their salt can handle criticism without an emotional outburst.
People doing things imperfectly can be more harmful than just not doing them at all. One-day boycotts damage the reputation of boycotts as a whole, which makes people more reluctant to participate in them because they view them as pointless and ineffective.