To not want Decathlon advertising on MN

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I keep seeing Decathlon adverts. A company who has only after five weeks of Russian invasion of Ukraine finally withdrawn their business there.

Should they continue to be boycotted and their advertising not accepted?

No they shouldn't continue to be boycotted if they have now withdrawn from Russia.

Some of these flippant answers are pretty disgusting too

Hi all, I would like to inform you that I had this ad......

And is your man in denial, @JamieNorthlife ? 😆

@SafelySoftly

Oh FFS. I hope you’re also boycottting Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct for their appalling treatment of staff

Please don’t boycott SD, I work there - need the money and it’s not the worst place I’ve worked.

@Zonder,

Before OP mentioned the ads I have never paid any attention, I'm glad I did yesterday. It was hilarious, I could not stop laughing at this ad.

@Buffalostance89

The adverts on here for me are things I’ve never looked up 🤷🏻‍♀️Currently showing is how to grow your own herbs, an alarm kit and Galaxy phone

I’m getting weaning advice. DS is five.

I sometimes get ads for things DH and I have discussed but not looked up. That always makes us slightly wary! The most recent was when I told him about a raffle prize my mum just won and suddenly I got an ad for it.

I don’t know what Decathlon is so guess its ads are passing me by.

I've commented already about the boycott but this thread has annoyed me so much

Spotcheck i can't quote your post but that is a particularly vile take on the invasion and slaughter of and in a sovereign country

Ping pong tables? Fucking hell that's classy. Try cables and ropes. Not that they would really need them for the 10 year olds in Mariupol. They can rape them with brute strength alone

Every rouble paid in tax is funding the massacre of innocent people. It's not that hard to understand.

Herbs or….’herbs’?

You're not talking about boycotting Decathlon, you're talking about "cancelling" them, and many many mumsnetters are against cancel culture.

Here's the difference:
I don't like the patronising advertising and political stance of the brand "Oatly", so I make a point of avoiding Oatly products, and sometimes tell others why I'm doing so. But I don't complain to supermarkets and try to get them to stock Oatly products, or write to newspapers telling them not to ever run Oatly adverts (I might campain to get a specific offensive or inaccurate advert banned, but would not object to the same company being allowed to run a different advert).

Boycotting: relies on loads of individuals feeling the same as me. The negative effect on the boycotted business is directly linked to the number of people who freely choose to avoid using the business.

Cancelling: consists of the most influential or vocal group (even if they are a minority) dictating that no one may have access to a product or service even if they might want to. The negative effect on the cancelled business/individual is the same, regardless of how the majority of people feel.

@ChiselandBits

Oh give over. Its a business. They can't all make instant changes or afford to make some kind of a moral point that will actually mostly affect the ordinary Russian person who loses their job.

This. And ultimately most businesses are unethical in some way.

@sharksarecool "many many mumsnetters are against cancel culture"

You must have been fun in the 80s and 90s, arguing that that there was nothing immoral about continuing to do business with South Africa.

[quote UnvarnishedTruth]@sharksarecool "many many mumsnetters are against cancel culture"

You must have been fun in the 80s and 90s, arguing that that there was nothing immoral about continuing to do business with South Africa.[/quote]
I would advocate individually boycotting organisations one disagrees with, rather than trying to get them shut down.

Boycotting Russia = all good
Boycotting anyone else who doesn't boycott Russia = a step too far, imo