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View Poll Results: Boycott companies with views or practices that you disagree with?
Always. My money speaks volumes. 17 26.98%
Sometimes. It depends on how badly I need the service. 29 46.03%
Never. Companies can express whatever views and engage in whatever behaviors they choose. 9 14.29%
No one is holding these companies back but them. 8 12.70%
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Old 07-25-2012, 04:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Low C Sharp View Post
For me, it's none of the above. The answer is sometimes, but it doesn't depend on how badly I need the service, but the nexus between the company's profits and the action it is taking that I oppose.

The fact that a CEO is donating his own money or endorsing candidates I don't like will not usually cause me to boycott. But the company's discriminatory hiring practices or donations to hateful causes will make me boycott.

I don't go to Chik-fil-A often, but there is one near my workplace, and I might have gone there for an occasional treat if I hadn't learned about the boycott on Facebook. So I don't mind that at all.
This is a good distinction.

An example I always think of is Whole Foods, because I support much of their work toward sustainability and such, but I do not support many of the owner's political opinions and his treatment of labor.

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