The perpetually aggrieved are calling for an embargo of Black Friday sales in protest of a lack of an indictment in the Ferguson police shooting. I guess because Macy's and Best Buy and WalMart and Target are somehow responsible for the Grand Jury verdict. To further highlight the sheer stupidity of this protest one of the supporters of the embargo argued that not shopping on Black Friday would "show the government we demand justice". Yes, and refusing to purchase a gift from a local small business hurts the Feds just as eating a donut for breakfast shows big cable companies how much we hate their lack of customer service. Perhaps next this moron will support a boycott of the NFL to protest the fur industry. We might see this mental giant waving a protest sign outside a Kroger food store to demand banking reform. Cause and effect is a difficult concept for some. I bet his Mom still lays out his clothes each morning now that gr-animals no longer fit.
On a second point, one day protests are meaningless anyway. A few years ago economic morons routinely sent emails and called for an embargo of gas stations for a given day. They laid out elaborate calculations of what the loss of sales for one day would do to ExxonBPMobileChevronEvilOil. Except it is nonsense. You need gas, you will fill up the day before or the day after and spend the same dollars anyway.
Useful Idiots indeed. Milton Freedman and Adam Smith are weeping.
Call it White Friday and be done with it
ReplyDeleteThe Montgomery Bus Boycott took over a year and a civil suit going all the way to the US Supreme Court.
ReplyDeleteSo yeah, one day ought to do it.