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Default Boycotts - How Do You Go About It?

Gregory Morrow wrote:
> Dan Goodman wrote:
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>> Old Mother Ashby wrote:
>>
>>> However I've been thinking. If I did want to stage a boycott, how
>>> would I know who to stay away from? I mean, in this country you're
>>> not required to put a sign up at the door indicating your religious
>>> affiliation - it's optional, of course, kosher businesses seem to
>>> find it a useful marketing ploy to advertise themselves as such, but
>>> nobody makes them and you just sort of assume that the proprietors
>>> are Jewsh and you can stay away if you're boycotting Jewish
>>> businesses at the moment.

>> My maternal grandmother claimed that all the pork stores in NYC were
>> Jewish-owned. I doubt that; but some were.
>>
>> I believe there are Turks and Arabs selling Greek food in Minneapolis.

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> Devout Mormons have huge holdings in Las Vegas...


Hey, don't laugh! In the border towns of southern Idaho, it's estimated
that 90% of their lottery ticket sales are to Utah residents!

<and my great aunt used to swear that Jews ate pork in the dark corners
of Chinese restaurants, and not just on Christmas>