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To: Steve_Seattle; Hugin
"What exactly is that supposed to accomplish? That may be the dumbest boycott idea ever."

agree; it is one thing not to buy the stamps, quite another to refuse to accept mail bearing that stamp.


The only thing it'll accomplish is making all conservatives look like unhinged loons, which is of course furthering the gay agenda. Lefties couldn't plan it any better if they tried.
40 posted on 06/01/2014 12:55:03 PM PDT by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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To: highball
The only thing it'll accomplish is making all conservatives look like unhinged loons

The AFA has been making conservatives look like unhinged loons since 1977. They boycott anything and everything that they perceive as immoral, the end result often being a backlash that brings support and free publicity to those companies they're boycotting.

As far as I can tell, they've only had two successes; in 1986 they joined forces with feminists to have Playboy and Penthouse pulled from the shelves of 7-11. They tried the same thing shortly after with Walden Books and were basically told to get bent.

In the early 2000s they succeeded in forcing clothier Abercrombie and Fitch to remove their borderline pornographic catalogs from the store's checkout counters. (It should be noted that plenty of reasonable people found these catalogs offensive, particularly since they were marketed towards teens.)

The AFA failed epically in going after Ford for advertising in gay magazines. Ford acquiesced at first but the public backlash was so severe that Ford apologized and then doubled-down on gay advertisements. Pretty much every company that has ever paid for an advertisement in a gay magazine has been on the receiving end of an AFA boycott. Whether or not they felt it is debatable.

In 2012, the AFA reminded Americans that Archie Comics still existed when they boycotted it for having a gay character.

46 posted on 06/01/2014 5:51:42 PM PDT by Drew68
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