The whole thing with boycotts can get so crazy (and I'm a great boycotter since the days of grapes because Caesar Chavez and Argentinian Parmesan cheese because Junta (and Zabars indeed stopped selling Argentinian Parmesan cheese). Surely we should all be telling Netflix very loudly and forcibly to stop showing Chappelle's "special." But to what effect? If we were all to cancel our Netflix subscriptions (that is, those of us who actually pay for it and aren't using a friend's or relatives), we would then also be punishing the creators whose work is there. (We are currently watching a German sci-fi series called "Dark," which lives up to its name.) I think a lot about boycotts and what they have morphed into and how they have become both trivialized and more difficult and less effective. This is a great discussion for activists.
The whole thing with boycotts can get so crazy (and I'm a great boycotter since the days of grapes because Caesar Chavez and Argentinian Parmesan cheese because Junta (and Zabars indeed stopped selling Argentinian Parmesan cheese). Surely we should all be telling Netflix very loudly and forcibly to stop showing Chappelle's "special." But to what effect? If we were all to cancel our Netflix subscriptions (that is, those of us who actually pay for it and aren't using a friend's or relatives), we would then also be punishing the creators whose work is there. (We are currently watching a German sci-fi series called "Dark," which lives up to its name.) I think a lot about boycotts and what they have morphed into and how they have become both trivialized and more difficult and less effective. This is a great discussion for activists.