Inspired the thread on “cancelling” Texas. Have there been any successful boycotts or attempts to cancel a city, state, or other large organization due to a law opposed by liberals? Success means either the relevant officeholders being voted out of office or the law / policy in question being repealed. Let’s also limit this to recent times. No need to bring up MLK and the Civil Rights movement of the 60s.
ETA: If none have succeeded yet, are there any that could be said to be coming close to succeeding?
I believe Arizona was finally shamed into adopting Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday. The OP said no need to mention MLK, but this is not the civil-rights movement of the '60s but rather a recent example of a state being boycotted into doing something.
No, it applies to both sides. My assumption, however, is that conservatives are generally the ones on the receiving end. I assume that attempts to cancel liberal laws by a conservative boycott are unlikely to be attempted. Not because conservatives don’t want liberals laws cancelled, but because conservatives are essentially one block, and don’t really have the broad base to make such attempts.
ETA. IMHO this is part of what has precipitated the current situation. Conservatives, at least social conservatives, feel that they are backed into a corner and are doing anything they can to try to regain their previously held power.
How can you tell the difference between successful “canceling” specifically due to boycotts by liberals, and successful “canceling” due simply to widespread public disapproval whose manifestations include boycotts by liberals?
That article supports my hypothesis about my admittedly poorly worded belief about conservatives and boycotts of “liberal” policies and institutions. My interpretation of those boycotts by conservatives is that they’re nothing more than a bunch of MAGAs spouting off on the comments on Facebook articles and things of that sort. If they had all really stopped watching football, baseball, basketball, Netflix, Hulu, and so on, and stopped shopping at all the places listed, we probably would have noticed real world effects.
This. International boycotts and sanctions directed against apartheid South Africa are generally credited with playing a significant role in bringing about change, but obviously they weren’t the only factor at work.
Kind of in Colorado with Amendment 2. While the Supreme Court ended up overturning it, it did cause a massive boycott of Colorado as well as the failure of many copycat laws that Colorado based Christian groups were holding to take nationwide.