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I think there's a deeper and more important subtlety here: there's a sort of moral obligation not to break a strike, but except in some specific circumstances, there really isn't an obligation to support a boycott, any more than there's an obligation to put a pro-labor bumper sticker on your car. Breaking a streak and ignoring a boycott are not equally weighted.

(My kid brother is a labor person, so really I'm just venting some stuff here to keep it from coming up at Thanksgiving).



> "a labor person"

... Are we supposed to know what that means?

The way you're using it, it sounds like a pejorative... Which puts something of a spin on your particular pedantry here.

> there really isn't an obligation to support a boycott

I think the Irish - who invented the term - would disagree with you on that point.

Not every boycott is worth supporting, sure. But if a boycott is worth supporting (say, divesting from genocide supporters) then yes there's a bit of an obligation there.


He's in a union and pays attention to this stuff. That's all it meant.


Probably means someone who thinks there's a moral obligation to follow a union-requested boycott.




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