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Originally Posted by Half Smoke
a customer has every right, legal and otherwise to attempt to influence a business towards a direction he sees as being positive
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if horseplayers acted in concert by uniting into large groups and for example boycotting a tremendously popular stakes race you can believe that the powers that be would take notice
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it's not an easy thing to get a large, diverse group of people to act in concert
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but it's not impossible
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if i may chime in. what you say is very true. boycotts have proven to be a great tool for change in the civil rights movement, ie rosa parks bus incident and more recently the various black movement boycotts for what was (is) considered offensive in the media, ie jimmy the greek, circa late 80's.
