Boycott the Boycott

I’m only writing about this because I just woke up and came across a random article about a certain “nationwide boycott.”

Obviously, I’m not a part of any such boycott. In fact, I’m currently having a BUYFEST. I done bought soups, pizzas, aluminum FERL, clothes, deodorant, foods, and other essential items. I will continue to do so.

This boycott is wack, and the whole thing seems more political and personal than anything else. Left versus right blah blah. “It’s not just us. See! They’re bad too!” blah blah. Lmao.

There were already laws in place preventing corporations from discriminating, and some founders already had an equal opportunity mindset from day one. DEI programs were extra initiatives that probably caused more division than not and failed to increase any company’s bottom line. Hence why certain businesses may have rolled back on them under pressure.

Trump is just being Trump. I believe he showed us who he was last time around.

My honest opinion is that everyone deserves a fair opportunity to get a job that will help them feed themselves and/or their families and pay their bills. The term “everyone” includes men, non-minority people, etc. No one should get a specific job solely based on their color, gender, etc., but no one should be denied because of those things, either. That’s about where I stand with all this as person who has worked most of my life and needs to work more.

WM does not owe anything to any particular person or group of people. It is a corporation that has always made the best decisions for its business while also trying to do what’s best for its consumers and workers.

The bottom line is this: As working class people, we need corpos just as much as they need us. We need places to work just as much as they need slots to fill. As consumers, we need products and services just as much as they need us to buy them.

I never said any particular mega-corporation was a squeaky clean beacon of perfection or some kind of cathedral or synagogue. I never said any particular megacorpo aligned with the beliefs of every employee and loved them all, either. What I did say is that all things need to be considered when choosing who to work for.

Only once in my lengthy life have I ever done an outright personal boycott of an entire corporation (to the best of my ability), and that was after considering all things. WM is obviously not the name of that corporation.

I will not be boycotting them or discouraging anyone from shopping with them or working for them. That’s regardless of whatever.