Keyboard Warriors, Starbucks Boycotts and Virtue Signaling for Fun and Profit!
26th April 2018
The Starbucks vagrancy/racism episode that occupied so much of the news cycle last week presents us with an opportunity to learn more about how boycotts may have changed – for better or worse – in our digital age. While it’s easy to shrug off the episode as mere “slacktivism” or corporate virtue signaling, remove the cynicism and the issue presents a deeply layered set of principles that all Americans interested in free speech and social activism of all kinds should examine.
I detest coffee, so I don’t have a dog in this fight.