Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 01:55:50 JST Evan Prodromou

   This was a difficult one. A lot of people weren't familiar with the term "boycott ban", which made it hard to vote. This seems to be the current term used for laws or rules that prohibit boycotts, but Wikipedia for instance uses "Anti-BSD laws".

   https://www.google.com/search?q=boycott+ban

   • Embed this notice
     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 01:56:53 JST Evan Prodromou

     in reply to

     Anyway, looking at the replies, there are a lot of comments like "I read it wrong and voted the opposite way from what I intended." Which probably means that the results should be taken with a grain of salt.

   • Embed this notice
     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 02:12:13 JST Evan Prodromou

     in reply to

     I am a strong negative. I understand but disagree with the arguments that boycott ban proponents make -- that boycotts hold Israel to an unfairly high standard, and that they undercut the legitimacy of the country -- both anti-semitic speech under the IHRA definition. I think boycotts are a peaceful method to achieve realistic goals, which hold Israel to an equivalent standard as other countries in the world.

   • Embed this notice
     Farce Majeure (vathpela@better.boston)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 02:13:47 JST Farce Majeure

     in reply to

     @evan haha, best typo again.

   • Embed this notice
     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 02:13:47 JST Evan Prodromou

     in reply to

     • Farce Majeure

     @vathpela I can't stop doing it! Corrected now.

   • Embed this notice
     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 02:14:25 JST Evan Prodromou

     in reply to

     • Martin Settle

     @Martin that is the correct response!

   • Embed this notice
     Martin Settle (martin@mstdn.bdms.ca)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 02:14:26 JST Martin Settle

     in reply to

     @evan I didn't respond because I wasn't sure about the question.