or because whataboutisms are extremely accurate criticisms of trying to blacklist a whole country over a matter unrelated to investment and revenues when your country or "the West" has objectionable things too, often the same things
they're not so important to ignore other considerations, just when you apply that standard to countries and individuals within country you happen to respect, you'll find the same reasons to boycott
the unwillingness of boycotters to see that makes me more willing to ignore them
You're pretty heavily downvoted, but I agree to some extent. Really, I'm just pointing out how marked the trend has been. The line in the sand with Saudi has just blown away in the wind ... of perceived easy money.
I don't agree with the point on blacklisting countries. We boycotted South African goods back in the day when were were pushing for the fall of Apartheid. And I'll be boycotting Israeli goods right now. And I'd stop my boss working with Saudi if I could.
I’m sure I would have a different opinion if I was around for the consumer South Africa boycott and feeling like that succeeded
but nothing remotely close to that has occurred in 30 years and trade is more interlinked as not to really affect countries the same way even if it did occur
with that in mind, how I feel is that harboring that sentiment requires having major blind spots about all the other places you do business with. and the disdain is 100% misapplied to other people or your employer. For example, its one thing if its the Prince’s investment fund, its another thing if its a random private equity fund or private office in Saudi Arabia. The boycotter’s broad, cognitively negligent, generalizations seem far more insensitive than the person disregarding their complaints about human rights abuses.
So you don't feel it is an issue, when you say "prince fund bad, random fund good" that it is fraught with all kinds of ethical issues to bring money and knowhow into a country that has public beheadings?
ah exhibit A: and The West has public extrajudicial executions, as well as semi-public ones more formally
…where is your boycott of Silicon Valley? you don’t feel it is an ethical issue to bring money and knowhow into that country? which country passes your standard exactly
