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Originally Posted by DrPhil
There have been many boycotts since the invention of social media.
 I'm assuming you have lost your mind. Your post was horrible. The wording was horrible and what is embedded was horrible.
Do you really gauge concern and importance based on what clogs your faceboook feed? This world is definitely coming to an end. |
Embedded?
Yeah, I agree that I didn't ask what I was actually thinking about very well.
Why has the present Chick-fil-a issue blown up? I can't really say if there is more concern or importance to it, but people seem to be talking about it a lot more. It seemed to me that the social media role was slightly different with this one, and that seemed significant. Maybe it's not.
There was no real change in Chick-fil-a's position. There was already a Chick-fil-a boycott because of Chick-fil-a's position. Religion was always a factor.
Maybe it's just that the folks involved managed the issue in a way that prolonged its coverage. Huckabee named a date which produced scenes that could be shown on the news. The Kiss-In is likely to produce news worthy footage as well. It's an election year. It's not bad economic news.
Or maybe interest in the issue will just dry up soon and it won't be any more significant, in attention paid, than other boycotts in the age of social media.
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