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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, 03:32 PM
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I understand.

If you told a friend or family member that Nike employs 5 year old children in poorer countries and the friend or family member says "those damn ghetto foreigner kids better get back to work then" and keeps wearing Nike, would that shape your opinion of (Nike and) that friend or family member?
Would it shape my opinion of Nike? No.

My friends and family members who would respond with something like that are doing it to prompt a discussion or bitchfest, so I'd "know" it was coming and would engage that person. It wouldn't be an "OMG WE CAN'T BE FRIENDS NOW" thing, though.
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