mistersloane
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I'm super digging all this Asian bredding of the carbohydrates :
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The big bad Byron burger-bastard backlash brouhaha.
Now I've got total sympathy with poor people doing whatever they have to do to make a living (assuming we're not talking about kidnapping or armed robbery). And if it's true that Byron has been culpably negligent in checking employees' credentials then clearly the blame lies mostly on them. But I'm still a bit perturbed by how readily people call for a boycott of the chain. I mean, think for a moment about the likely consequences of a widespread boycott: profits fall, branches close, perhaps hundreds of working-class people lose their jobs, and the directors bravely take it on the chin by awarding themselves a measly 100k bonus this year instead of the usual 250k. But hey, a few thousand middle-class liberals felt good about themselves, which is the main thing.
5/ https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...lease-cockroaches-and-locusts-at-burger-chain this wasn't on the list of things i expected.
Byron is a fairly upmarket chain, isn't it? I mean, I can't recall ever seting foot in one, but it looks vaguely hipsterish and I understand it's not cheap. So it's probably fair to say its clientele is mostly middle-class. You can't meaningfully boycott a company if you don't consume its products/services in the first place, can you?
I don't see that anyone is "organizing" a boycott in the formal sense, but I do see plenty of people posting #boycottbyron all over Facebook and Twitter.
But more broadly I don't really understand why this issue is irking you so much.
Is there good reason to think that this sort of low-level disruptive protest is effective in getting companies to change their behaviour? Again, that's an honest question - maybe it is. But it's noticeable that McDonald's hasn't closed down, doubled the salaries of its shop-floor staff or ditched the Big Mac in favour of a Fairtrade vegan beanburger as a result of having its Oxford Street outlets smashed up every May Day for years.
PS for info, London Black Revs self-define as a working class group, afaik, and they're calling for a boycott as well as the cockroach tactic.
You can call for a boycott if you don't consume a particular product. Definitely not uncommon.
What would your strategy for shaming/Punishing Byron be...
...if you were campaigning against them rather than for them?