It’s a gray, rainy day, not rain rain, I think, but drizzle, and I have one of those pounding headaches, the kind that gets between me and my thoughts.
Wait, the clouds are breaking up, but it’s still raining. One of those days, I guess.
There are things on my mind, but it’s the kind of day where I don’t feel like explaining them, which makes writing a blog post kind of a fruitless endeavor, I’d say.
I don’t think you guys are going to like this one.
I’m seeing people call to continue boycotting Disney, and while I get it, I also kind of wonder…what’s the goal?
Not a rhetorical question, you can answer it if you want.
Because I have a few thoughts on this too. I feel like we, those of us on the left, Democrats in general, really can’t take “yes” for an answer. There was a boycott calling for a specific action. They took that action.
But now people want something else.
I mean I get it, it’s grossly unsatisfying and unjust that Disney changed course because of the bottom line, when, if anyone in this entire country has the legal team and money to stand up for the First Amendment, it’s Mickey Mouse.
There is zero probability that execs saw the error of their ways. They only saw the error of their calculations.
It’s capitalism in action.
But…it’s capitalism in action.
I’ve seen it before, at a nonprofit conference where people from corporate giving came to tell people how to apply for money from their foundations. And the people in the seminar attacked them for corporate greed and for not doing it for the right reasons.
Meanwhile, they were there to tell us how to get funded.
I’ll tell you this. A corporation will rarely, rarely, rarely do anything for “the right reason.” We’ve set up an entire economic system that makes “the right reason” irrelevant.
We want Disney to reverse because of morals. Corporations may be people, but most of the time, they’re not moral ones.
First, not telling you what to do, only stating my opinion, here in the tiny fragment of the internet made for that.
But second, what does continuing a boycott after conditions are met accomplish? If anything, I would think it would tell the corporation to find a workaround that doesn’t include us.
Maybe take yes for an answer.
I know this post will not sit well with many people, I said as much at the top. Still, maybe there are a few others out there who are sitting back and thinking the same thing, but because the consensus seems to be keep going, they don’t want to say anything.
And as you know, I’m always up for polite discourse, but actual polite discourse, not bigotry but you’re not allowed to get angry at it discourse, wink wink wink.
So we can have this discussion.
If the reason is to make them understand what they did was wrong and to change their ways, call me skeptical but I don’t think that will happen.
They understood what they did wasn’t profitable.
We’ve gone so stark, pure black, pure white. We’ve got to make some room for gray between because otherwise, all we’re left with are the margins, and that’s not going to get us anywhere.
Anyway, that’s it for me today, I hope you have a great Tuesday, rain or shine.
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