After anti-gay and Racist remarks, should Duck Dynasty be cancelled?

[Kasz216]

RG3Hunna said:

Kasz216 said:

Aielyn said:

Fusioncode said:
Duck Dynasty is far and away their most popular show. It isn't a simple choice for them to just cancel it considering how much revenue it brings in. A&E will have no problems getting advertisers for a show that pulls ten million viewers per episode. 

Does it represent more than 50% of their revenue?

Like I said, it's not a question of popularity of that show. If keeping that show destroys the rest of their business, then they're screwed. And it might be harder to get advertisers if large swathes of people choose to boycott any company that advertises on the show, irrespective of the size of the audience.

Tell me - do you honestly believe that the management of the network haven't weighed up the pros and cons of cancelling the show vs keeping it going? Do you really think they'll completely cancel a show, complete with all of the side-effects of doing so, without first considering whether the show is a net liability in the circumstances first? Do you really think that they're that incompetent?

Except boycotts never actually work.

Actually, generally when boycotts are announced... buisness actually goes up because their name is in the news.

Boycotts don't work? Yes they do, the problem is our generation is lazy we don't go through in our boycotts. Look at the 50's-60s when the bus system was boycotted off the whole rosa parks situation they lost so much money they were forced to change their rules.

Money rules ALL as soon as a business knows it's going to lose money it will concede, look at the boycotts XboxOne was going to get due to their DRM policy, they changed their policies because they saw how poor their preorder numbers were compared to the competition. 

You seem to be missing the point.  Boycotts don't go through BECAUSE nobody goes through with them.

Because nobody really gives a shit.  People just wants to post a little face book post and complain over a couple dinners with friends...

and then come next... week.  They're back watching duck dynasy or eating at Chik'Fila or whatever.

Meanwhile all the talk of the boycott brought up the product to people who don't give a shit, and remember that's a thing and then see what it's like.

If anything if there is a change, boycotts increase buisness like it did with chik fil-a

Threatening a boycott can sometimes trick a company, but really... nobody cares.

 

I mean, really Duck Dynasty's ratings will probably go up.   Maybe?  I mean, i'm not sure who the target audience for the show is.

I mean... I saw like half of an episode and i've got no clue who the target audience is.  As far as i can tell they're activly making fun of the stars of the show so i'd guess the people who watch it are people who watch it to feel like they're better then those guys even if they are rich, like the people who watch honey boo boo.

So these people already know they're racist.

The whole thing seems about as pointless as Bill O'Reily's war on Pepsi.