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packman

(16,296 posts)
Thu May 13, 2021, 11:04 AM May 2021

CONSERVATIVES AND THEIR "WARS"

Bill O'Reilly launched a boycott on French goods and business owners dumped French wine in the streets in 2003.

https://www.voanews.com/archive/french-stance-us-iraq-war-sparks-francophobia-2003-03-22

Conservatives boycotted Nike because of, of course, Colin Kaepernick.

https://www.businessinsider.in/conservatives-are-boycotting-nike-after-it-pulled-a-controversial-us-flag-sneaker-and-want-a-not-so-woke-alternative/articleshow/70056025.cms

Conservatives literally destroy their own property when companies make decisions on where to advertise.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sean-hannity-keurig-fans-boycott/

Lets not forget some age old conservative cancellations. Let's cancel disco music, it's scary because so many blacks and gays like it.

https://timeline.com/disco-sucks-movement-racist-homophobic-2d4e63b43a0e?gi=27517b54abbf

Trying to cancel games amongst other things in the wake of "Satanic Panic", which has never really gone away.

https://www.cbr.com/1980s-dungeons-dragons-satanic-panic/

And of course the perennial War on Christmas that exists only in conservatives' minds.

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a8655761/heres-why-trump-supporters-are-now-boycotting-starbucks/

More recently Trump himself called for various boycotts after losing the 2020 election.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/546349-trump-calls-for-sweeping-boycott-of-companies-protesting-georgia-voting

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Aristus

(66,591 posts)
1. Right-wingers fit Jor-El's description of Non in "Superman":
Thu May 13, 2021, 11:12 AM
May 2021

"This mindless aberration whose only means of expression are wanton violence and destruction..."

Under The Radar

(3,408 posts)
2. The fight against affordable health care and medicine
Thu May 13, 2021, 11:14 AM
May 2021

The destruction of Medicare
The attempts to destroy Social Security
The war against the US postal service....basically anything that burdens the common man that benefits the rich and powerful.

JHB

(37,170 posts)
3. Dixie Chicks for saying in 2003 they were ashamed of Bush
Thu May 13, 2021, 11:14 AM
May 2021

Which brought the entire "No More Jane Fondas" contingent of axe-grinders and grievance-nurturers down on them.

underpants

(183,198 posts)
4. Bookmarking. Great list. I'd forgotten about Hannity and the Keurigs
Thu May 13, 2021, 12:00 PM
May 2021

I actually tried to watch his show a few nights ago. It was an unorganized rambling mess of inside jokes based mostly on conspiracy theories and RW media lore.

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