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Originally Posted by garinda
Did the student boycotting of companies like Barclays and Del Monte, as well as the lack of sales for the artists who played in Sun City, make a difference?
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I honestly don't know whether they did or not and, as you say, there's no way of proving it one way or another.
Isn't it strange, though, that there were no student boycotts of companies who dealt with communist China or the various viciously repressive black African regimes like Uganda? In my view the reason for this was that protesting against those regimes didn't carry the required cachet of radical chic. I'm not for one minute saying that the boycotts against the South African regime weren't justified - I am saying that the majority of students did it because it was the trendy thing for students to do. In other words, their commitment to the ideas they were protesting about was skin deep.