Boycotting Amazon when they pay Clarkson £800,000 per episode?

I have just learned, via Twitter (it's good is Twitter ), that ostentatious self-righteousness, some of which we've seen on this thread, now has a new name: it's called "virtue signalling". Aposite.

Thank you, merlot, too

Bung another p in aposite

Well - this thread has proper cheered me up. thatbags losing her cool (good on you) and Elegran suggesting that durhamjen could be a died in the wool Thatcherite, soontobe a professor of Islamic studies amongst other wonders.

Wow, you guessed. I'll have to be more careful what I write.

So will others, of course. Anyone who thinks that the working conditions of people at Amazon or any other company is not their concern is actually contributing to those poor working conditions.
Boycotts do work. It's just laziness on the part of those who say they cannot be bothered. Either that, or they really do not care.
I await a few swear words.

I've never heard of Oliver Bonas, but they are the first high street retailer to be given living wage foundation accreditation. Ikea is likely to be the next.
It is possible to positively discriminate by shopping at those stores rather than others to show appreciation.

Luckygirl Boobylady might be more to my discription than rubylady, .

What doesn't work, what has the opposite effect from that intended, is the self-righteousness of nagging, judgemental, full-on "look at me! I'm such a good person", social justice warriors.

Meanwhile other things to improve things for other people work too. Things that people do but say nothing about because they don't want to be bracketed in the same group as those in the previous paragraph.

ruby,

What the self-righteous naggers don't seen to understand is that some of us prefer to do our "be the change" quietly and without fanfare because we find the noisy, public, in-your-face righteousness exceedingly distasteful and—this is the important bit—we don't think it is any more effective, possibly not even as effective, as the quiet kind of Be The Change. The "do what I do because what I do is good" approach to social change does not appeal to everyone. In my case it does more than not appeal.

I'm guilty of posting political stuff on Facebook, despite knowing full well that most of my friends will agree and the ones' who don't, won't be influenced. Good points there thatbags

It is the same with religious in-your-facedness. The harder I am exhorted to believe exactly what someone else believes, against all my (god-given?) intelligence and knowledge, the more I resist. I do not have the precious ability to discriminate so that I can ignore discrepancies and be blindly obedient to a single authority.

I mostly ignore the political threads.

Less is more.

It's not the posting so much as the self-righteousness that comes across from the posts of some posters with their inherent judgmentalism and intimation of moral superiority. That is what gets up one's nose.

Wow- how judgemental is THAT- truly, can't you see?

This is an internet forum- someone asks a question and asks for opinions. People give their opinion, sincerely and politely-nobody is pusing anything down anyone's throat, or sitting on any high horse - the exchange is friendly. Then several people say 'not my problem' and others say 'this is a shame'- and they are told to p*ss off and get off their high horse for stating that someone does not care- when this is exactly what they said.

This is sheer madness, truly. Telling someone that because they have a different opinion to yours, and explain why they feel differently- they are being 'judgemental' is JUDGEMENTAL in the extreme, can't you see that?

It reminds me of that famous poem 'First they came for ...'

oh not that poem again!

sometimes it seems to be almost a competition on here, to see who is the most caring.

Yes, and in the most melodramatic way possible...

Just been sent another petition about Amazon, to get it some brownie points.

act.sumofus.org/go/11039?t=2&akid=13482.8185493.Y8bguS

Apparently Roundup has been found to be carcinogenic by the WHO. Amazon sells a lot of it. The petition is to ask Amazon to stop selling Roundup.

Oh but it does do the business with the weeds
I make sure not to use it on a windy day and wear protective gloves.

Is there a petition targetting garden centres and agricultural merchants or is it just Amazon in the firing line?

These petitions are getting ludicrous!

merlotgran you beat me to it!

Just had a closer look, and it says "Probably carcinogenic" hmmm. Personally I think it would be better to come up with a definite reason before starting the hysteria. Mind you, just my opinion.....

Might actually also be harmful to weeds. Has anybody got up a petition on their behalf?

Equal rghts for weeds! Lets get up a petition against speciesism.

Other 'carcinogens'

Toast: contains acrylamide, a genotoxic carcinogen produced as a result of cooking starch-rich food at high temperatures.

Coffee: a byproduct of roasting coffee beans is acrylamide. There have been attempts to force coffee companies in California to add a label warning of cancer.

PVC plastic: emits a carcinogenic gas called vinyl chloride, better known as that not so lovely ??new-car smell??.

Broccoli, onions and strawberries: natural foods containing acetaldehyde, a carcinogen.

We're doomed all doomed!