Will Smith’s New Film Production Joins Growing Boycotts Against Georgia Law | Talking Points Memo

Explain it to Stacey Abrams then. I’m sure you’ll be able to show her the error of her ways. :roll_eyes:

What I like about boycotts: they are a thumb in the eye of the authoritarians. The GA GOP thought it was showing the world that they had the power to do whatever they wanted to. Sadly, they can’t stop a boycott, and they can’t stop the headlines and news reports about a boycott.

I expect them to get good and angry and do something stupid or embarrassing. Dare I hope that they announce big tax incentives for Kirk Cameron to come to GA and film Left Behind 3D?

Stacy Abrams will do her thing, very well. Other opponents of the GA legislation will announce boycotts, or fund voter registration and education efforts, or fund legal challenges, or set up food and snack stations near voting sites, or whatever. They won’t negate each other.

Will these boycotts affect production crews? Yes, they will be forced to move to where the filming takes place.

There will be residents who will no longer get the low-end, unskilled or low skilled jobs associated with the production. These people won’t move because they have no guarantee of employment (unlike skilled members of production crews).

But the big losers will be the interests behind the tax incentive inticements: hotels, caterers, equipment rental, limousine services, electricians, plumbers and fitters, tourism, etc… These business interests are losing a market and they will not be happy about that in the least. They will turn against Republicans for killing their golden egg laying goose.

Remember, the whole idea behind a Republican government incentivizing through tax breaks is that it will be good for business. Well, the businesses that benefited are now seeing business evaporate.

Boycotts are a crude tool and they don’t always (more like rarely) work. But in this instance, the fallout will be greatest on entrenched capital who were significant beneficiaries of these productions. Businesses are seeing declining revenue projections and know the precise cause. Kemp and co. are going to go through a hell of a year and the GA Republican Party is going to have serious fund raising problems in 2021.

Any corpo who truly wants to put their company’s money where their mouth is, should declare Election Day a company-wide holiday. If it’s too hard to shut down the assembly line or ground the airplanes, then stagger the holiday over what early voting days remain.

Just so long as Georgia voters know that this is in response to the law the GOP passed.

The boycott pains everybody: The law pains blue voters. So no pressure on the GA GQP to change it. It wasn’t hurting their voters or donors.

Better response from Stacy Abrams would be that this is painful but the legislature needs to repeal this racist law now.

Or you could explain it to all those who will lose even more voting rights in the next 1 1/2 because the republicans never had a reason not to.

That’s right, you definitely know better than Stacey Abrams.

Yes, and I’m sure that kind of jump in logic serves you well in court. Does the jury laugh out loud or just snicker?

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