1srelluc
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- Nov 21, 2021
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Meh, if I wax a bit hypocritical in not buying A-B's swill due to their promoting the mental deficient then I can live with it. No shits given about what some leftist has to say about my choice to do so because I'm still, and will remain, better than them.
That and boycotting a product is the very lowest rung on the whole cancel culture ladder. I can live with that too.
Hey, I still admire the Clydesdales and don't wish to see them turned into soap.
As a interesting aside the term boycott comes from a man by the name of Boycott.
In 19th century Ireland, wealthy, absentee Englishmen owned most of the land. They would hire a Land Manager to look after their estates and collect rent from tenant farmers. Charles Boycott was the Land Manager for the absent Earl of Erne.
In 1880, after a bad harvest, the Earl’s tenants demanded their rents be lowered by 25 percent. The Earl offered them 10 percent. When the tenants wouldn’t accept this, the Earl ordered Boycott to evict any farmers who did not pay their rents.
Local Irish shunned Boycott and anyone associated with him; no one would take over empty farms on the Earl’s land and local businesses would not sell anything to Boycott, including food.
Boycott was forced to leave for Dublin, and even tried to move to the United States, but his reputation followed him and any business that worked with him was threatened with a “boycott.”
In 1888, the Oxford English Dictionary first included the word boycott.
That and boycotting a product is the very lowest rung on the whole cancel culture ladder. I can live with that too.
Hey, I still admire the Clydesdales and don't wish to see them turned into soap.
As a interesting aside the term boycott comes from a man by the name of Boycott.
In 19th century Ireland, wealthy, absentee Englishmen owned most of the land. They would hire a Land Manager to look after their estates and collect rent from tenant farmers. Charles Boycott was the Land Manager for the absent Earl of Erne.
In 1880, after a bad harvest, the Earl’s tenants demanded their rents be lowered by 25 percent. The Earl offered them 10 percent. When the tenants wouldn’t accept this, the Earl ordered Boycott to evict any farmers who did not pay their rents.
Local Irish shunned Boycott and anyone associated with him; no one would take over empty farms on the Earl’s land and local businesses would not sell anything to Boycott, including food.
Boycott was forced to leave for Dublin, and even tried to move to the United States, but his reputation followed him and any business that worked with him was threatened with a “boycott.”
In 1888, the Oxford English Dictionary first included the word boycott.
