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Originally Posted by BarTopDancer
I think I see what WB is saying... Please correct me if I am wrong.
You can think however you want, you can hold whatever opnions you want. But when you threaten to cause someone or something harm (financial, physical, mental etc...) because that someone or something doesn't think how you do or hold the same opnions you do is the problem.
The AFA can think however they want, hold whatever opnions they want, but they are threatening financial harm to corporations who don't think how they do and don't hold the same opnions that they do.
Edit: They aren't threatening within their group, they are going to the companies and saying if you don't stop supporting people who are gay then we will boycott you. If they went to their members and said "hey, Ford supports gay people lets boycott them" IMHO it would be different. I still wouldn't agree with them but they wern't threatening a company.
Come to think of it, isn't this type of behavior coercion? And isn't that illegal?
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But that's simply a boycott - an often used tool throughout the decades. Alex mentioned that Rosa Parks helped start one. While I may not always agree with the boycotters, I support the right to boycott.
EDITED TO ADD - too much editing and posting going on here, I'm all confused
