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the polite way a crowd ruins your day by simply walking away.
means To deliberately refuse to buy from, deal with, or participate in something as a form of protest or pressure.
from From the surname of Captain Charles Boycott, a land agent in 1880s Ireland who refused to lower rents during hard times. In response, the local community — urged on by the Irish Land League — simply stopped dealing with him entirely: workers walked off, shops wouldn't serve him, the post went undelivered. His name became a verb so fast it spread into other languages within months, an unusually clean case of a person turned into a word.
- named man
- Charles Boycott, an Irish land agent shunned in 1880
- his fate
- workers quit, neighbors ignored him, harvest rotted
- silent weapon
- no violence required, just collective absence
- global reach
- toppled bus laws, apartheid, and grape prices
montgomery bus boycott — african americans boycotted montgomery, alabama buses for 381 days starting december 1955
bds movement — boycott, divestment, sanctions campaign against israel founded 2005