An individual not buying a wine on the secondary market is hardly a boycott. Heck, not buying a wine in the primary market is hardly a boycott. Organizing a larger group to not buy is what gets you going on a boycott.
The OP is just saving a little money, and trying to pat himself on the back about it.
The number of lobbyists employed by corporations and groups of corporations to advance their political agenda is almost beyond counting. Even groups of relatively small corporations(Willamette Valley Wineries Association for example) are constantly pushing a political agenda, if for no other reason than to keep a different set of corporations from imposing their will on us via lobbying.
Anyone who thinks that any but a fraction of the smaller wineries many people on WB really enjoy would be available for you still, without political groups defending their existence through advancement of a political agenda, is terribly naive.
Itās probably not even particularly bad business to align yourself with the right thing to do, but itās certainly bad business for your humanity to stand aside, do nothing, and pretend like you can live in an apolitical world. Justice is justice and Iāll let Desmond Tutu take it from here:
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Without reading the email I canāt say for certain, but if you are choosing to stop supporting a business because of their support of the BLM movement, well, thatās an interesting stance, yeahā¦Iāll go with interesting.
No doubt. If you want not to buy from some winery because of something they did or said, thatās totally fine and itās your money, but people probably flatter themselves a bit too much by ascribing some powerful stand of principle to it.
The Pax email had a short statement, links to an album, some books, and a podcast they felt had inspired them on the topic, and links to some other resources.
I really donāt care about their support for BLM; however, I did not provide my email address to them for this purpose. In my opinion, this is the same as all those robocalls that we all love so much.
Fair enough, but it seems odd that their one email addressing an a rather relevant national movement so quickly dissuaded you from being a customer of theirs.
I try not to piss people off and deciding how not to do that these days is almost a 50/50 crapshoot, but I really try not to piss people off. Itās bad for business and we feed many mouths, from employees to suppliers. It would suck to hurt all of them just so I could make a point, whatever it may be.
