Comment by n4r9
4 days ago
If anything, djur is attempting to keep the discussion on topic. The question is whether Paul Graham is correct to claim that Bud Light did indeed "venture too far into wokeness". Whether or not boycotts are legitimate in capitalism is a separate matter.
P.S. Seeing that you are still posting in this thread, I'm keen to find out whether you can support your asssertions as per my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42708660
Right. All of the people trying to say "yes, of course supporting trans people are woke" are proving my point: the rational, classical-liberal case Graham claims to be making against "wokeness" is such a thin layer over culture war politics that even Graham can't keep it from leaking. I don't know if Graham himself has anything against trans people -- he might be one of the people under the misapprehension that Bud Light was slapping Mulvaney on all their cans and that the boycott was an organic movement of turned-off consumers. But the people he's allying with certainly do.