Hanover
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I boycott all North Korean goods. Sure, it's difficult around Christmas when looking for that perfect gift, but it's the least I can do to de-fund their nuclear program. — Hanover
I've heard that a lot growing up. Usually just after my friends were innocently calling the staff "chinkies".
How does what I wrote in the OP correlate to what you wrote in your last post? — Chester
I would guess for the same reasons the right doesn't boycott goods from despotic regimes: laziness, lack of time and energy to go about researching products and governments, selfishness, how hard it is to not support evil in some way or other, their dreams, desires and children, also playing roles in all this. I mean, the right should be just as interested in punishing non-democratic and harsh regimes, if the right believes in democracy and justice.Why don't the liberal left boycott goods manufactured by despotic regimes ? — Chester
People can do both those things. We are not binary machines. And often people care more about things that are close to them, even, say, poor in their own country. The right has gone to war to knock down tyrants, at least supposedly, and this was accepted as justification (for example when weapons of mass destruction were nowhere to be found). One would be seen as not patriotic if one didn't support the war in much of the right. It was a just war. But then those same right wing people would buy products that benefit bad regimes. Or look at the Left for being anti-american, for example, for criticizing US foreign policy and its effects on the poor and native groups in South America, where the US was actively intervening and helping dictators..the liberal left chooses to buy them whilst pretending to care about the poor and the planet. — Chester
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