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Guide posted...

I've heard this from a few different people all at once, recently. Who started this? I would consider boycotts a form of protest, and those can be effective. But otherwise, this just makes protesting sound counterproductive and petty.

I feel like boycotts usually are more tightly organized and coordinated though. They are kind of their own beast. Sometimes they can't be effective, just structurally. Like, the whole boycott Israel movement can't really be effective because every company has more to lose in business from the United States (Especially in stuff like security contracts, the exact sort of thing the movement wants to stop) than they have to gain from the protestors who are a part of that movement, and there can never be enough protestors to balance that out.

Boycotts do exist in that same space though as being an outlet besides voting or violence to try to display anger on an issue.