A sharp, immediate boycott, particularly yanking high profile events- tournaments, conferences, conventions - can have a big impact. See the response to NC’s bathroom bill or IN’s “religious freedom” (to persecute gays) bill in recent years. Going farther back, the AMA voted to move its multi-thousand person conference from NOLA if David Duke was elected governor.
A generalized “I’m never going to Georgia again” boycott won’t help, but a Twitter storm directed at major corporations and sports leagues might. The key is tightly coupling cause (vote suppression bill) with effect (10,000 people are no longer flying from out of town on this date)
So they are not being hurt now? If they are blue then they are the ones the law is trying to keep from voting. You have a backwards way of thinking of things.
I’d rather go after the people who signed this bill and their donors. Start by pushing Biden to flesh out an FEC quorum and get campaign finance reforms. Attack the actual culprits instead of going after their victims or subjugating ourselves as supplicants to mega-corps.
(Not that a single person has asked what I would do)
Back in '96 I was working with an arch conservative. I had a great time trolling him by pretending I was a supporter of Colin Powell for President. I talked up all the great things he had done (and he had), and the only thing that racist f*k could say was “I don’t think he’s quite right.”
I hope the current diversity the Democrats are bringing will pop his little head.
I get where your coming from and that stuff should be done, but think you are wrong on the boycott threats. It is time for people and corporations to stand up for what is right and wrong. Loudly! When you threaten them with lost revenue and the following disastrous media coverage that will make them look like clowns, you can get their attention.
Again, the only place this inflicts pain is in Atlanta. If you really feel a need to boycott companies, why would you not rather boycott the companies supporting Kemp and these legislators? Why target the people who will be harmed by this law instead of the people harming them?
Don’t you get that the threat of the boycott may be enough to get them to back off? That the ongoing retribution is a smack in their face? That shouting out the difference what is right and wrong is an important thing? And that it needs teeth too?
