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Knowledge Of The Day: Origin Of "Boycott" By Donestk by donestk(m): 7:47am On Dec 21, 2015
A boycott is an act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for social or political reasons. Sometimes, it can be a form of consumer activism.

The word boycott entered the English language during the Irish "Land War" and derives eponymously from Captain Charles Boycott, the land agent of an absentee landlord, Lord Erne, who lived in Lough Mask House, near Ballinrobe in County Mayo, Ireland, who was subject to social ostracism organized by the Irish Land League in 1880. As harvests had been poor that year, Lord Erne offered his tenants a ten percent reduction in their rents. In September of that year, protesting tenants demanded a twenty five percent reduction, which Lord Erne refused. Boycott then attempted to evict eleven tenants from the land. Charles Stewart Parnell, in a speech in Ennis prior to the events in Lough Mask, proposed that when dealing with tenants who take farms where another tenant was evicted, rather than resorting to violence, everyone in the locality should shun them. While Parnell's speech did not refer to land agents or landlords, the tactic was first applied to Boycott when the alarm was raised about the evictions. Despite the short-term economic hardship to those undertaking this action, Boycott soon found himself isolated – his workers stopped work in the fields and stables, as well as in his house. Local businessmen stopped trading with him, and the local postman refused to deliver mail.[1]

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott

Re: Knowledge Of The Day: Origin Of "Boycott" By Donestk by prospero5(m): 7:49am On Dec 21, 2015
the young man was 'prosperoed' in his career. #haha
Re: Knowledge Of The Day: Origin Of "Boycott" By Donestk by fotadmowmend(m): 7:52am On Dec 21, 2015
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Re: Knowledge Of The Day: Origin Of "Boycott" By Donestk by fistonati(m): 8:01am On Dec 21, 2015
Origin of the word corruption :-) Nigeria
Origin of the word dirty politics :-) Nigeria

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