Very few actions on big problems are like "Okay let's a few people do this one thing and then it's fixed."
Divestment is (1) adding a little pressure in a way that, it would be reasonable to hope, will add up over time (2) even if it does nothing at all, and they just find the money somewhere else, not having you or your institutions personally profiting off the slaughter of the innocent is a good thing, I think.
I think the idea that problems are rarely “solved” as much as met with new effort and new forms of their reflections on society has begun to demoralize people.
The abolition amendment was passed right after the civil war, yet the last chattel slave held in the US wasn’t freed until after the US had entered WWII.
The fact is that you’re never gonna be “done” with whatever crusade you pick up so much as successful enough to be satisfied when you’re too old to keep fighting and need to pass it on.
Hey don’t be unfair, they’ve also spent months telling us Biden couldn’t do anything because he’s only the President of the United States of America, while telling us Biden was doing so much and he’d make a pier to a ceasefire by next Tuesday as was overheard on a hot mic moment.
If people can relate personal self-improvement to a lifetime endeavor, it's hard to fathom they can't relate national self-improvement as lifetimes* of endeavor. Yet here we are.
exactly 😭 i had to block a few users who kept trolling and being insulting because they rejected all the evidence and news where BDS did good
that said, i think i would still be pro-BDS even if it were totally economically ineffectual, simply because i support all forms of non-violent protest that encourage socio-cultural awareness of corporate complicity in genocide and apartheid. the fact that it does have positive economic outcomes is simply a really cool bonus to the movement.
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