Hollywood, There Are Better Ways to Protest Georgia’s Voting Law Than a Boycott (Guest Column)
Erik Hayden
Election officials count the votes for Fulton County on January 6, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia. (inset: Bethany Anne Lind).
Y’all. I admit, when I heard there were murmurings of Hollywood boycotting the Georgia film industry again after Governor Kemp signed the egregious SB 202, I ignored them. Surely, I thought, these nice liberals from the West Coast haven’t forgotten our oh-so-recent history together. I asked my friends who were speaking out against the boycott threats to quiet down. Let’s not add fuel to the tiny fire, I told them. Our energy should be spent on fighting actual voter suppression, not on fighting those ostensibly fighting for the same thing.