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Mr Opinin,
You'd better put that question to the over-paid Leftist bureaudroids who are supposed to close loopholes not keep them open for their mates !

Dear GrahamY,

You wrote; "Abdel-Magied was at the forefront of cancel culture when she actually had a session with Lionel Shriver (a renowned author, unlike herself) cancelled."

It seems all she did was walk out of a address Shriver was giving. How is that personally cancelling it?

Further Shriver returned to Australia last year after emphatically vowing never to do so.

If you are trying to make a point here I'm not sure it is all that clear.

However you haven't said why you feel that the ordinary punter using they very limited purchasing power to try and bring about changes in corporate and government behaviour is any less legitimate than billionaires doing the same with their extreme wealth?

While an app designed that help remind people of who the corporate knee-benders are and to guide buyers to better outlets/retailers/producers, would be a very useful tool, the real solution to all this is to get CEO's who have a backbone.

In the end, these people demanding boycotts for this and boycotts for that based on the flimsiest pretext (Coon cheese FFS), represent a very small, though vocal group. CEO's who recognise this and tell the 'woke' to take a hike, would first save their business a deal of angst and would also gain the admiration of those who don't in the least support the 'woke' agenda.

We don't see much of this in Oz, but the US is starting to see more and more businesses fighting back. The best recent example is Goya Foods. The CEO of this company had the temerity to praise Trump. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (who, one wonders, might will be a one women RNC 5th columnist) led a boycott of the company. But the company refused to yield and people like Ivanka Trump led the fight-back, including a 'buycott' whereby people moved their purchasing TO the company. Funds were raised from ordinary Americans to buy Goya products and then donate them to food-backs.

The upshot? The company is doing better than ever, the CEO remains in place the boycott went nowhere.

A few examples like this and the whole unsavoury practice would die a quiet death. Of course, it does require CEO's with fight and in Australia, given the way they've all acquiesced to the destruction of the economy, there doesn't seem to be too many backbones around the boardroom.

Another major failure of the "woke" cancel culture was that of Israel Folau who was "cancelled" by the whinging left and went onto make a motza getting paid another 3 years for free and going on to star in NRL rugby.

The major victims of this pogrom were the snowflake Raelene Castle who got fired for the cock-up, and rugby fans whose sport got reamed.

https://www.rugbypass.com/news/israel-folau-is-trending-on-twitter-again-but-this-time-for-his-monster-super-league-performance/

Dear mhaze,

My god you just can't help yourself can you. Is it that you post rubbish like this up on sympathetic forums and so never get pulled up?

“We don't see much of this in Oz, but the US is starting to see more and more businesses fighting back. The best recent example is Goya Foods. The CEO of this company had the temerity to praise Trump. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (who, one wonders, might will be a one women RNC 5th columnist) led a boycott of the company. But the company refused to yield and people like Ivanka Trump led the fight-back, including a 'buycott' whereby people moved their purchasing TO the company. Funds were raised from ordinary Americans to buy Goya products and then donate them to food-backs.

The upshot? The company is doing better than ever, the CEO remains in place the boycott went nowhere.”

Firstly the CEO who was suppose to speak on the fourth day of the RNC event has been dumped, cancelled by Trump by the looks.

Secondly the CEO is the grandson of the founder of the company. This is a family business so he is hardly going to get his marching orders.

Thirdly the complimenting Trump and the Boycott only happen last month. It is utterly fanciful to claim “ The company is doing better than ever, the CEO remains in place the boycott went nowhere”.

And now you seem to be saying people who are boycotting are wrong for basing their purchases on the politic of the CEO of a company but it is fine for those who are participating in a “buycott”.

How about some consistency from you for once?

Many of these "boycotts" seem to be based on a small number of pressure points such as the one against Sky TV and phone calls by lobbyists to their ten largest advertisers. It's not a traditional boycott. The US Sleeping Giants brought down Australian TV Channel "Your Money" by lobbying their advertisers.

The Traditional Media has been having a difficult time due to Google Ads. Blow's to large players such as Murdoch's Sky and The Australian will probably have wage impacts to the whole industry as a large number of journo's flood the smaller number of outlets. Possibly the only outlet to survive will be the advertising insulated government funded ABC.

In the US Sleeping Giants the founders consisted of a San Francisco based Advertising Executive and an Indian IT Specialist from memory.

It's good to hear cases of Sleeping Giants tactics backfiring