Or "hate speech" for that matter.
A boycott is not even violence. So, again, who cares? We're not even in physical danger in the case of a boycott. In fact, the boycott is actually free speech. (Or, more precisely, free expression).
But consider, if the government comes after you, who will you arrest? Who can you get to defend you? In this case, the Constitutional protections of our freedoms are essential.
The threat from the government is the danger that the Founders were insistent on mitigating. And they were right to do so. The government is the main entity that we need protection from vis-a-vis restriction of rights.
Yet “hate speech” is literally a phrase created to justify oppression against people for having opinions you don’t like.
I may choose not to associate with a jerk like in my example, but the perpetrators of “hate speech” concept want to deny him basic human rights, and often do violence against him.
Ironically for the “crime” of being different.
Basic human rights s are rights for everyone.
Genuine liberals used to advocate for the right of the KKK to march. The ACLU even filed a lawsuit Withings the past ten years defending their right to make white robes fools of themselves.
When “liberals” stopped defending human rights, you lost the plot and the whole point of being liberal.
Both are characterized by marked intolerance. A small minority of both are what I would term "Violently Intolerant". You can get yourself killed for being a congressman at a baseball game, or for being black and going to bible study or walking up a street. The "Left" and the "Right", particularly their extremists, are just bad business all around when it comes to what we would typically term "tolerance".
No one's talking about the obvious stuff here. Like Nazis, or forcing blacks back into slavery or something. I'm talking about being intolerant of reasonable ideas.
It's perfectly reasonable for a bunch of congressmen to get together for a baseball game without being shot.
It's perfectly reasonable for young black military officers to walk up a city street without having a knife stuck in his chest.
Don't even get me started on how reasonable it is for little old ladies to go to churches.