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]bathroomblower 3 points 4 hours ago
Although the majority is malay that is boycotting shops like McDonald's, the ones boycotting are a very small group of malays compared to the rest of us malays and I feel ashamed sometimes when they do this and complain about the economy. we are not like them, please don't assume all malays are like this.
ICZephyr89 3 points 4 hours ago
As a Malay myself, I wholeheartedly agree. Quite a lot of us are trigger-crazy for boycotts. It's annoying as fuck.
BetterThanNone311 27 points 17 hours ago
With the genocide going on in Palestine, the initial stand was to boycott any large corporates that directly channel their funds to Israel. Of course, logically speaking, we can't really boycott ALL corporates (e.g. META, HP, P&G, etc etc) because they are buried root-deep as a need to MOST consumers around the world. BUT it is proven that it does change SOME of these company's stand in contributing to israel for example, Family Mart, UnderArmour, Puma, etc.
And the BDS movement is also happening worldwide. You can read how Starbucks and McD are highly affected by this movement worldwide. If the governments of the world are too afraid to place an economic sanction on Israel - this will be our form of sanctioning Israel's income.
HOWEVER, as a Malay i do admit (and it bothers me too) that some Malays are going quite overboard and being racist about this entire boycott thing. They are a little extreme in some cases which i disagree with.
Although the majority is malay that is boycotting shops like McDonald's, the ones boycotting are a very small group of malays compared to the rest of us malays and I feel ashamed sometimes when they do this and complain about the economy. we are not like them, please don't assume all malays are like this.
ICZephyr89 3 points 4 hours ago
As a Malay myself, I wholeheartedly agree. Quite a lot of us are trigger-crazy for boycotts. It's annoying as fuck.
BetterThanNone311 27 points 17 hours ago
With the genocide going on in Palestine, the initial stand was to boycott any large corporates that directly channel their funds to Israel. Of course, logically speaking, we can't really boycott ALL corporates (e.g. META, HP, P&G, etc etc) because they are buried root-deep as a need to MOST consumers around the world. BUT it is proven that it does change SOME of these company's stand in contributing to israel for example, Family Mart, UnderArmour, Puma, etc.
And the BDS movement is also happening worldwide. You can read how Starbucks and McD are highly affected by this movement worldwide. If the governments of the world are too afraid to place an economic sanction on Israel - this will be our form of sanctioning Israel's income.
HOWEVER, as a Malay i do admit (and it bothers me too) that some Malays are going quite overboard and being racist about this entire boycott thing. They are a little extreme in some cases which i disagree with.
