The Left Is Cancelling Dr Seuss

[Belsnickel]

(04-03-2021, 10:55 PM)samhain Wrote: While I'm for MLB moving the ASG for the reasons they are doing it, I'm afraid the decision will likely hurt they very people they are trying to protect more than anyone. Atlanta isn't exactly the right-wing epicenter of Georgia. It's the exact opposite. Most MAGA types out in rural Georgia could give a shit about whether or not Atlanta benefits from getting the event. It's a foregone conclusion that both black businesses and black workers in Atlanta will make less money than they would if the event remained. The mayor seems pretty upset about it, and she most certainly had zero to do with the election reform effort.

The principle is commendable, but the consequence probably doesn't effect the people it's targeting very much at all.

This is definitely the sad reality of any sort of boycott, to be quite honest. I try to explain this to my wife who still refuses to get Chick-fil-A. The amount of money the corporation gets from my number one with a diet lemonade is tiny in comparison to the money in the pockets of the workers and franchisers that are a part of our local economy. This will have a negative impact on the economy of Atlanta and the surrounding area which is a liberal area of the state and was the area targeted by these voter suppression measures.