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You mean that you would wait until they started beating women in the parking lot before you respond?
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Essentially, yes. I would disagree with them prior to that. But people are allowed to think and say whatever they want, regardless of how ridiculous and that means you get to try and convince other people to see it your way.
If boycotting and threats of boycott should be criminalized (though I think they are rarely effective I don't think they should be illegal) then the bus boycotts that started the modern civil rights movement should have been illegal. Or is the method only illegal if you disagree with the goal?
iSm: All instituional investors are required to file Form 13Fs with the SEC that list their holdings. I'm sure there are tools that would allow you to search 13Fs for Ford. If you look at the annual prospectus from Ford it would also list major shareholders, but that it triggered, I think, by 5% ownership which it is possible no institutional investor reaches (Disney has no major shareholders, for example).
The top 10 institional investors for Ford are:
Brandes Investment Partners
Barclays Bank
Deutsche Bank
State Street Corproration
Vanguard Group
Northern Trust Corporation
Capital Research and Management Company
Goldman Sachs
LSV Asset Management
American Century Invemestment Management
The first on that list is the only one that owns more than 5% of outstanding shares. A more detailed report can be found on Lexis-Nexis using information provided by Vickers Stock Research. Full reports can be had from various companies but are expensive.