I am mostly talking about the OP whose responses have been some imagined fit by “western leftists”. You is general, not you specifically. sorry about any confusion

Makes sense and this is a pretty common miscommunication throughout this thread by everyone.

But also, you are comparing disagreeing with this stupid meme with thinking we should shit on boycotts.

No, I'm not. I'm seeing generalized shitting on all individualistic action, something that is done selectively around here. Everyone's against certain individualistic actions using sweeping arguments that apply just as much to other forms of "individualistic" solidarity that they not only support but bake into the expectations of this site. Saying, "you can't be leftist and transphobic" is something I agree with, but that is definitely some individualistic shaming. And when you see some IDpoler who got annoyed by that and stirred some shit, people here naturally assume they're a transphobe. Turn the conversation to the climate, where the Global South will face the brunt of devastation due to completely unnecessary or absurdly wrong production to and consumption by the imperial core, well now it's just pointless individualistic shaming that can never do anything, even having solidarity.

These are really just liberal rationalizations within a leftist aesthetic that knows collective action is better, but is turning around to punch at people supporting individual action in solidarity. It's the opposite of good organizing, it's like Trots getting pissed at each other in a room about the best way to overthrow a nation in the imperial core when they've never organized so much as a bake sale. We have nothing to offer and have to build on this kind of crap to capture the enthusiasm that exists in the real world.

You put more words in my mouth than you think I have to you.

I'm looking at the very real responses around here that are making ridiculous generalizations. But as you said, this can come across as me implying that you said them, and I don't mean to communicate that.

Calling western leftists triggered essentially because we understand that consumer choices will never matter in the grand scheme of climate change is not saying BDS is dumb.

And I'm saying that this understanding is false. Individual calls to action are the building block for collective action, especially when you have no organization. The biggest difference between totally atomized consumer shaming and a slightl organized boycott like BDS is a leftist org giving it a name and talking about it so that it becomes a rallying cry. Responses like "they will never matter" means you have opted to not create that label or rallying cry, pointlessly giving up on the only tools we actually have right now and alienating people who are motivated to fight but don't know how. "Join an org" is not good advice for a lib. They'll join a letter-writing campaign with incompetent grandmas for a carbon tax supported by Exxon without updating their understanding, without becoming allies. "Join this org so you can do that" or "the system is inherently flawed but we can build on this by taking this action" are helpful.