Would You Boycott a Business Because of the Owner's Political Views?

[Seraphina]

The owner of a local brewery used social media a few days ago to call people who marched in the women's march on Saturday "pieces of garbage". Now there is a backlash and today on the news, it was reported that minority owners of the brewery have pulled out. There are also other businesses in town that will no longer sell this brewer's products.

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2017/01/2...-by-owner/

Would you support a boycott of a business because of the owner's political views? I would and there are businesses that I don't spend my money in, like Hobby Lobby and a local ice cream parlor chain that isn't shy about telling everyone their political views. I'll take my hard-earned dollars elsewhere.

They certainly have the right to say what they wish but they're not entitled to be protected from any backlash or from hearing opposing points of view.

[Whateverist]

The owner of a local brewery used social media a few days ago to call people who marched in the women's march on Saturday "pieces of garbage". Now there is a backlash and today on the news, it was reported that minority owners of the brewery have pulled out. There are also other businesses in town that will no longer sell this brewer's products.

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2017/01/2...-by-owner/

Would you support a boycott of a business because of the owner's political views? I would and there are businesses that I don't spend my money in, like Hobby Lobby and a local ice cream parlor chain that isn't shy about telling everyone their political views. I'll take my hard-earned dollars elsewhere.

They certainly have the right to say what they wish but they're not entitled to be protected from any backlash or from hearing opposing points of view.

With you all the way.  Wish there was a Lowe's closer to me because HomeDepot is a red stater.

[Jesster]

Political views? Never.

Political actions? It depends.

Speech is an action, so boycott away. He's legally allowed to say that and customers are legally allowed to take their business elsewhere.

[The Valkyrie]

Political views? Never.

Political actions? It depends.

Speech is an action, so boycott away. He's legally allowed to say that and customers are legally allowed to take their business elsewhere.

This.

Everyone has their own views.  Free speech works just fine.  But there can be consequences to that speech.  This is an example of that.

[ErGingerbreadMandude]

Political views? Never.

Political actions? It depends.

Speech is an action, so boycott away. He's legally allowed to say that and customers are legally allowed to take their business elsewhere.

Yup. It's pretty stupid as a business owner to upset your customer base and customers have every right to take their business elsewhere where they feel more comfortable, welcomed etc....but I'm still against threatening other customers with backlash for wanting to go to that store if they wanted to.

[Minimalist]

Absolutely.  Won't go near a Wal-Mart or Chick-Fil-A or a fucking Hobby Lobby.

[J a c k]

Definitely. I support their right to free speech. Still, they wouldn't have my money.

[vorlon13]

Chik-fil-A

Cracker Barrel

Salvation Army

[paulpablo]

I boycott products if I think their adverts are annoying sometimes.

I'd probably boycott a bussiness over politics.

[Rev. Rye]

Honestly, given that one of my favorite filmmakers is a convicted child rapist, it may be more than a bit hypocritical for me to boycott a company solely on the grounds of dodgy political views held by the owners. Shortly after the height of the Chick-Fil-A Scandal, I decided to try to check it out to see if its chickenburgers at least lived up to the hype, and went downtown just to eat at their place on the Magnificent Mile. It was actually quite good. Apparently, they use Peanut oil for their frying and I have since switched from canola to peanut oil for all my oil-based cooking needs because of it. Their chickenburgers were, at any rate, better than McDonald's, and I wish more chains used waffle fries. And the staff was actually a lot nicer than a fast food worker has any right to be. Overall, it's a good restaurant, and if it were in closer locations [remember that that Magnificent Mile location is actually the second closest to me, and the most convenient to get to], I might go again, and if it weren't owned by bigoted SOBs, I certainly would.

So, long story short, the answer is not really, unless there's other reasons to hate them.