Posted on 02/22/2021 3:50:10 AM PST by MtnClimber
Too many times, conservatives don't want to see anyone fired.
One reason conservatives never saw a culture war they couldn’t lose is that they insist on using Queensberry rules, even as the Left fights no-holds-barred. Consider, for example, two scenarios.
When leftists discover someone “committing conservatism” — such as when former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich was found to have donated $1,000 to California’s Proposition 8 — they accept nothing less than the person’s termination. In fact, they never want him to work again. Ergo “cancel culture.”
When leftists effect something truly outrageous, such as the anti-white “Deep Equity” school curriculum being implemented nationwide, the reaction is different. Conservatives may fight back against it as they did with Deep Equity in Chandler, Arizona, but they’re generally satisfied if the social engineering is abandoned. They don’t go for blood. In fact, so often have I heard prominent conservative figures say in such a situation, “Look, I don’t want anyone fired.”
Well, I do.
I say this not with just a vindictive spirit. Liberals make sure to administer a coup de grâce generally driven by anger and hatred, emotions epitomizing them. Yet slightly more thoughtful leftists may have an additional reason and understand something: Culture wars are zero-sum games. And winning a battle but leaving your adversary in place to fight another day is no recipe for victory.
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Conservatives seem to be too busy working to get involved in culture wars. That is why we lose.
I’ve said that for years. Oh.... you don’t mean literally?
How does working prevent us from boycotting the companies that are against us?
Face it, too many on our side are more concerned about what's on TV tonight than what's going on in the culture wars, and are willing to make their leftist enemies in the media rich with their TV subscriptions for the privilege of being entertained by them.
Quit TV going on five years ago now. Never been on FB, Instagram, Twitter, or any social media. I make it a point to not purchase anything from companies that have gone woke.
Will it make a difference? Not sure about that. But my boycott list grows and grows.
“Conservatives Need to Start Taking No Prisoners and Claiming Scalps...”
Long overdue but with the current cast of republican nothings..for the most part..there is no chance.
I think white Liberals are going to be shocked and really "WOKE" when rise their head, look around and realize their in the same boxcar with all the other whities headed for the ovens.. I hope I'm not there to see it...
DITTO!
I refuse to buy from companies who support BS liberal views....etc.
I won’t even watch TV commercials or buy products/services from companies whose commercials I disapprove.
I have NOT paid for a theater ticket for over 30 years
My list of cultural dissidence GROWS daily!! For 8 years when “O” was in the WH - I did NO discretionary spending. I had saved thousands to renovate the kitchen and waited 8 years to do it. I only wish Americans would comprehend how much power they have in withholding dollars
Conservatives need to refine our boycott process. Most people won’t stop buying things for long term. The way to get attention is to do short term absolute boycotts. For example kohls stops selling my pillow. We get all offended but do we really do anything? Some stop going to Kohl’s (I have not set foot in one since they removed my pillow and won’t ever again), but most maybe stop for a while. What has to happen is there needs to be an organized 1 or 2 week complete stoppage. 2 weeks of sales dropping by half might get someone’s attention. Years ago sailors were mistreated in norfolk, va. The navy paid everyone in $2 bills. When the merchants saw how many of those bills came through their cash registers things changed. That was, to my understanding only a single payday. It’s easy for stores to cancel when it doesn’t affect their bottom line. Just two weeks of a 50% reduction in sales might stop some of this.
“Conservatives need to refine our boycott process. Most people won’t stop buying things for long term.”
The reason ‘boycotts’ with the Left work, and ‘boycotts’ on our side do not work is how they are effected.
When I lived in California (a while ago now), Koreans owned a lot of liquor stores in black communities. Often they would be robbed, but once in while they’d fight back and kill a Trevon type.
So the blacks would ‘boycott’ that store. Now when we hear the word ‘boycott’, we see it as nicely telling people who live close by to shop elsewhere, and maybe, after a long time, the store would go out of business and change ownership.
Then one of the TV news shows there did a report on one of the ‘boycotts’, and it was a bit more than ‘friendly persuasion’. You had ENFORCERS of the ‘boycott’ outside the doors of the store, making sure that no one was allowed in. It wasn’t a ‘boycott’, even though the TV station kept calling it such, it was a BLOCKADE. The people doing the blockading said just that: “We’re here to enforce the boycott”
So, for today, when the left ‘boycotts’ businesses that they don’t like, they already know that, in most cases, the businesses won’t even notice a hit in sales. They are not dumb...we are, to think that voluntary boycotts have any effect (except in very rare cases).
So the Left ENFORCES their ‘boycotts’ of large companies by using bots to scare them into thinking that huge losses await them if they ‘behave’ correctly, and they make sure that upper management knows that they and their families are being monitored and my be pulled-in, personally, if action is not taken that suits them.
And that’s why the Left has success in ‘boycotts’, while our side is laughed off - we play by the ‘old rules’, they don’t.
I bought Goya and canceled “Prime” yesterday. :)
You took the discussion off the rails by mentioning ‘boycott’. Others took the bait and followed suit.
Unless ‘boycott’ is a metaphor, you miss the author’s point entirely, that the author is talking about YOU.
I’ve seen alot too willing to ‘Not Rock the Boat’, either with neighbors or friends.
As a former liberal I’ve been telling this to conservatives for years. hell, I’ve stopped talking to one of my younger sisters years ago. She’s a dyed in the wool Democrat.
I don't see how my post conflicts with the op-ed, but my post was in reply to another post anyway.
I absolutely agree that conservatives need to fight back against liberal dominance of our culture. But there are two big issues with this. I would love to boycott companies that supported BLM. But that would be 99% of them if you count posting a black square on Twitter, and I’m not willing to live as as ascetic. So I need to pick-and-choose which companies are egregious enough to warrant boycots, and everyone has a different threshold so it winds up not working.
Second, there have been many times — usually with small companies — where I see someone standing up to the woke mob, jump in with my support, and less than a week later the CEO releases a statement apologizing for the controversy I tried to support them for. And this happens even in cases when the jump in sales has garnered media reports.
I do make a sincere attempt to “feed your friends; starve your enemies”. But can you point me to a conservative entertainment company? (yes I support Daily Wire. They have a total of one movie at the moment). If I were to boycott Amazon, which online retailer should I use (and don’t tell me to shop local since I live in a small town)? I did deliberately switch to Microsoft Edge to not use Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, but is Microsoft really all that much better at being anti-woke?
I’ve bought tens of thousands $’s over the years on the Internet; high end optics, knives, rifles, clothes, cameras, lens, video equip,etc. I have never used Amazon.
Any specific sites to recommend, or do you use different ones for each purchase?
With a good verbal left hook. And a real one.
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