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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stefano Rinaldelli" data-source="post: 8933989" data-attributes="member: 6791994"><p>You are free to have your standards and to financially boycott whoever you want. Until this mechanism remains in the dominion of personal decisions is absolutely acceptable. What is wrong is when it become a system, a law, a common practice arbitrary conducted by big groups of power. In this case we stop to talk about free choice and responsible consumerism and we slip in the slope of authoritarianism. There is not a clear line, is a matter of social climate and could end in a dictatorship of the majority that is the contrary of democracy. We are talking of balancement. The theme is when we remove somebody from a position for their ideas. This is plainly wrong. I cannot but find insincere the attitude of a publisher who remove a book from his catalogue due to political views of the author. The same for a producer that do not want an actor because of he said something racist on twitter. This removals are always motivated by the fear of a money loss, because in a particular hystorical periods there is a vast majority of people among the costumer base that wants to boycott that kind of ideas to the point to mix the man, the work of that man and the personal view of that man. This is some sort of preheventive action to avoid potential money loss and it is motivated by the social intolerance of a customer base in regards to certain ideas. So it is worth to ask ourselves if a society in which vast majority of people are incapable of judging the work of a man separating it from its ideas or better incapable to accept radically different ideas in itself is really sane and strong or just made of fragile people unable to sustain cultural and moral relativism. A majority so vast that create a censorship in cultural life without the need of written laws and suffocates the democratic debate. The results are not the death for starvation of all nazi / racist people. The result is the strong polarization of political positions and an horrible division in political life of the nation. Ultimately it can conduct to a civil war and to other ugly conseguences.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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