Young Justice Returns...Not.

...So people standing up for a cause they believe in is immature? So Rosa Parks was immature for not giving up her seat on the bus? So women are immature to standing up to clothing giants that print demeaning slogans on their t-shirts? So Greenpeace is immature for standing up to conglomerations for deforestation?

 

so it's immature to disagree with anything?

 

They still show reruns of season one where I'm from.

 

Boycotting in general is immature, but there are exceptions, such as here with Rosa Parks. However, boycotting a TV network is just stupid.

 

Why? You say it's immature but don't explain further.

 

Are you seriously saying that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was just an immature little brat?

I mean, he probably was at some point (you know how kids are), but that's not the point. It takes a lot of willpower to boycott the bus when you're part of an oppressed class that, for the most part, doesn't have any other viable means of transport. It was a difficult thing to do and in the end it sent the right message. What's so immature about doing what you have to do to effect change? If there's a bomb at a party and you can't get people's attention so you can tell them to evacuate, the best way to make sure they get out is to yell until you have everyone's attention.

Disclaimer: Personally, I'd just get the hell out of there without worrying about anyone but my closest friends and maybe any kids or elderly I see on the way out. But if you're trying to evacuate people, you yell.

 

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Can you think of any other way to make sure they get the point that you don't support their choice of programming?

 

It's funny, I clicked on this topic thinking "well at least they're not making Young Justice GO"
but I guess I was wrong

 

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[QUOTE="Amaury, post: 4208253, member: 3091"


Criticism and feedback go a long way![/QUOTE]
So does not giving a business your money

 

What constitutes "a true issue," though?

Imagine a factory in the US that makes knickknacks, wumbos, blimbos, and widgets and sells them to stores, a large portion of which only ever orders from the factory for its widgets and may also order a few knickknacks because of a discount that comes with every order of widgets. Somewhere along the line, however, the factory decides that widgets don't exactly fit in with its other products, so it discontinues the widget so there will be more room for machines that make a new product, thingies, but assures its customers that widgets will still be made and distributed by its sister factory in China, which costs more and takes longer to ship from and doesn't have equipment that can make widgets as well as the original factory. Would it be justified for the stores who exclusively buy widgets (and sometimes discounted knicknacks) to stop buying from the factory altogether or should they continue to buy more expensive lower quality widgets (which, as you may have guessed, won't sell as well to the stores' customers) just to show that they still want more widgets to be made?

You've never dealt with a big corporation before, have you? Criticism and feedback never make it to the people who have any real power.

No it's not and I'll explain why below.

Misty is a real person who sees the people on this forum as more than just hits and ad revenue and actually has personal relationships with a lot of us. Nickelodeon is a corporation that doesn't care about its viewers as long as what it does turns a decent profit. Unless there's a significant decrease in that profit, they're not going to give a crap.

 

Something like the hate homosexuals still face from some people today, I guess.

 

Just to clarify for Amaury because he's really sucking at his words:

Boycotting IS NOT immature. Kneejerk boycotting IS. The internet has a lot of these type of hate boycotts in the hopes that whoever is the target will just up and die off. Rosa Parks didn't want that, she wanted advancement for her entire people.

The internet does a lot of kneejerk boycotting. THE DIRECTOR OF THE NEW DEVIL MAY CRY GAME SAYS HE DOESN'T THINK OLD DANTE IS COOL LET'S BOYCOT ALL OF CAPCOM! EA USES MICROTRANSACTIONS IN MOBILE GAMES SO LET'S BOYCOTT EVERYTHING THEY MAKE! These are things done so companies doing things they occasionally don't like die off. It's also an illusion of power. We're using boycotts from once upon a time as an example: when everything was isolated; it was much easier to make an impact with a hundred followers. Today, you need millions to make a move because nothing is isolated or contained anymore.

And yes, boycotting a television network because they can't bring back your beloved series but they acknowledge it and treat it with respect in a popular show is fuckin' silly. In fact, I'm willing to say the boycotts relating to the video game industry I listed above are insulting to boycotts in general because even when the company steps back, acknowledges why you're upset, and fixes the issue, and you still boycott, it becomes entitlement. You got what you want and you take this weakness to demand more? Actually fuck you.

 

What about my example with the factory and the widgets? Would it be justified for the large amount of stores who only ever bought from the factory because of the widgets to refuse to buy anything from the factory until it starts properly selling widgets again?

(By the way, political correctness only matters in politics and PR statements. It has no place in casual conversation)

Actually, she was just tired. It's like that time I went into the ladies' room because I had to use the toilet and couldn't be bothered to check the sign on the door. She wasn't standing up (erm, sitting sitting down) for her rights, she was sitting down for her knees. It was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who saw an opportunity to use that small act of courage to kick off a boycott that would help further the civil rights movement.

I more or less agree with the rest of your post.

On a side note, we're extremely lucky that MLK used his intellect for the civil rights movement and not world domination. He'd probably have been a benevolent dictator, but some people might not have been born in that alternate history and I don't knwo about you, but I really want to have been born.

 

How much lower quality are we talking?

 

Enough lower that the higher cost of shipping doesn't justify it and that the customers will probably stop buying. Here's the example again to refresh your memory:

 

I went back and read it, actually, before I replied.

Anyway, no. It's unfair.