Believe it or not, I’m all for this—provided organizers agree to extend the boycott to government agencies. Then again, I’m for anything that will shorten the lines at emergency rooms, the MVA, and the Wendy’s drive-thru—if only for a day—so color my support of the boycott, you know, opportunistic.
Still. It’s the thought that counts.
Developing…
That has backfire written all over it.
Those types of boycotts are always a waste…
Idiots.
First of all, illegal hispanics aren’t a herd of cows mooing in unison and most of them are too pragmatic about their lives to give a crap about “boycotts”. During the big UFW Cesar Chavez days where we had a boycott on grapes, you’d still see Mexicans putting bunches in their shopping carts and snacking all the way to the checkout. That is with white activists outside picketing… oh, there was an occaisional “Chicano”.
As an aside, anyone else go to school with chicanos back in the day when Cheech Marin defined them as Mexicans who take spanish class and get a ‘D’?
Those were the days when I’d walk out of the store and see some kid I’d known since kindergarten who used to be named Billy and who didn’t even speak a word of Spanish…
Now Billy is a chicano activist named Guillermo…. wtf. Where’d Billy go?
(thought… would my writing style be less rambling if I hadn’t smoked all that weed back then?)
Anyway, it isn’t like the aisles of the 99cent store will be bare all day. Saks and Nordstroms will never even notice. They’ll still buy beer, smokes, tacos, gas. Because at the end of the day they are here to work, not to do some dipshit boycott.
Uh, yeah. That’ll work.
They’ll just end up taking unemployment benefits too.
It’s all good – during the big “boycott” in LA (remember all the people waving Mexican flags?), the streets were un-gridlocked, you could see an emergency room doctor in under 2 hours, etc.
So, like, have at it.
Yeah, they tried that here. It wound up with a bunch of them smoking weed at the local parks. I wrote about it when it happened.
Why don’t we have a day when speed limits, building codes, and business regulations are enforced as poorly as immigration law?
Maybe we could stop collecting sales tax that day, too.
Time to throw a birthday party for the kids… the jumping house business will plummet to nothing and pinatas will be 1/2 off….
SteveG – they get a B, not a D. It isn’t that they are stupid, just lazy. Next time, lets try not to be so racist.
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The (kind off) funniest thing that I saw during the one-day strikes last year was a crew of block masons on one of the jobs I was inspecting sat out the Friday, but felt guilty about it and came in on Saturday to make it up. The reason it was only kind of funny was that meant I had to come in for half a day that Saturday too.
hey like who’s counting and shit eh ese?
didn’t think so eh?
fuck your ‘B’ eh
Yes. Generally, those with enough balls to get out of their hopeless lives and try to start a new one are hard working and have a sense of obligation.
Whereas your average trade union member is a shiftless layabout with a rule book in his back pocket and a sense of grievance on his shoulder..
I still say telling the story my way with a “d” is funnier….eh
Stand in front of a mirror and flash yourself some gang signs while reading my previous post… it’ll make way more sense
Tw: nuclear67 as in if we’d have gone nuclear in ‘67 would we have had to listen to Al Gore today?
didn’t thinks so eh?
While they’re out shop owners can all hang signs that say
No Shoes
No Shirt
No English
No Service
(but write it in Fwench, just to f*ck with them).
They tried that in DC last year. Easiest commute I ever had. Wish they’d do that every day. Or better yet, y’know, go back where they came from, get in line, and wait like the immigrants from the other hemisphere.
I am Hispanic (I used to be just a Mexican-American but now I have 3 college degrees and now I’m Hispanic)and I remember my father’s reaction when the same was tried last year in our area. When I told him about the upcoming “Day without a Mexican,” he snorted and said “Pendejos!”
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But let the merchants declare a “Day Without Illegals”, and just watch the ACLU-sponsored lawsuits fly!
All’s fair in love and war, unless you’re dealing with liberals…