Boycott Watch had
predicted the
Arizona boycott would fail, and as usual with our boycott predictions, we were
right. In an interview on the Fox News Channel's On The Record with Greta Van
Susteren (6/2/2010), Arizona Governor Jan Brewer said "We have not felt
any impact on that at this point in time … it's not going to have that big
of an impact."
There are two reasons for this. First, Americans do not
think about American products as being made in individual states. Second,
political boycotts usually result in equalizing buy-campaigns. The only
exception to that rule is when there is a complete reversal, such as when an
advertisement benefits a hotbed political topic and is then pulled, causing a
reverse boycott, thus the target company ends up boycotted by both sides
simultaneously. It is always best, therefore, for businesses not to engage in
political activity, but that is not the case here since Arizona is a state.
In this case, the main concern for Boycott Watch is something
we feared and predicted in our previous article, being state and other
constituency governments boycotting their counterparts to influence and
intimidate voters of other government entities. "This is voter
intimidation" said Fred Taub, President of Boycott Watch. "When the
voters of a state speak, other states should respect that rather than trying to
impose their values on other states."
Mr. Taub further stated "We are seeing political gaming
more than anything else. On one hand liberals and progressives want to impose
their cause of accepting gay marriage in one state by demanding reciprocity
acceptance in all states, but at the same time they also want to shut down the
conservative values of Arizona from even existing in another state.
Furthermore, there was a boycott in California of businesses which supported
the recent bill to not allow gay marriage, and the same political movement is
now boycotting Arizona. In both cases, we are seeing boycotts used to
intimidate people from exercising their free speech by people who think their
opinions are the only ones that matter. That is un-American. This great nation
was built on freedom of speech and respect for people, even if we do not agree
with them. The people spoken and the nation is laughing at the boycott."
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