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$\"\"$ <\/p>\n

Seriously, I thought it was pronounced Chick-fil-uh.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s not the main reason I haven\u2019t posted on this topic (though it did mean I was kind of\u00a0embarrassed\u00a0when the subject came up among friends). \u00a0 This just seems like a news story where there are only a couple things to be said, and most people are just repeating them (but with more and more vehemence). \u00a0Anyway, here\u2019s the selection of hackneyed thoughts I agree with, and then one probably not original one at the end.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t use zoning to curtail speech!<\/strong><\/p>\n

And, frankly, don\u2019t ever use zoning in response to a news story or problem that is less than, oh, let\u2019s say, 6 months old. \u00a0Zoning is already a shuddering mess, and the last thing we need to do is weaponize it further. \u00a0The only winning move is not to play.<\/p>\n

(Also, can someone please bribe the zoning boards in DC so we can have properly sized buildings here?)<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rod Dreher is right<\/a> about the weirdness of politicizing every purchase<\/strong><\/p>\n

When something really terrible comes up about a business you patronize, it makes sense to pause and decide if you can continue to do business with them. \u00a0It makes most sense to give them up if the revelation is related to their product or business model (unsafe ingredients, brutalization of workers, etc). \u00a0I\u2019m much more likely to boycott a business if it busts its union than I am if its executives give to anti-union causes or candidates.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a certain amount of fungibility here, and I\u2019m mindful of it, but I also don\u2019t want every action I take to be a sortie in the culture war. \u00a0Back when I was at college, the flagship Blue State Coffee<\/a> (a coffee shop that tithes some of its profits to progressive causes) opened up near campus, and some of my conservative friends didn\u2019t want to meet up there, if we were grabbing a coffee.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want every meetup, every gift, every purchase to be something that requires extensive research and might be something that keeps me and my friends apart (how can you have a substantive fight about anything without a mutually agreeable coffeeshop?). \u00a0There\u2019s a way to lower the stakes of your purchases, without hurting your cause. \u00a0See the next section.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t ever just boycott, give to advocacy groups<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure what fraction of the sandwich purchase price goes to fund anti-gay marriage groups or what portion of an Amazon purchase goes to support legalization of gay marriage. \u00a0But I\u2019m pretty sure it\u2019s small enough that you\u2019d have a much bigger effect just donating $5 or more to the advocacy group you actually back. \u00a0(In my case, that\u2019s Lambda Legal<\/a>).<\/p>\n

If you think the group you\u2019re boycotting is so awful, you can\u2019t in good conscience support them, fine, don\u2019t buy their products, but still give to the people who are rallying the troops to make institutional or cultural change. \u00a0If the stakes are high enough that buying a product means you\u2019re complicit, then they\u2019re high enough to make some time to volunteer or give.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

And then match that donation with another contribution through GiveWell<\/strong><\/p>\n

In case you aren\u2019t tired of me harping on it by now, GiveWell<\/a> evaluates charities based on the empirics of what they accomplish, not just on the size of their overhead. \u00a0Imagine two charities, A and B. \u00a0Charity A has 20% overhead, and the remaining 80% goes to malaria nets. \u00a0Charity B has 10% overhead and the remaining 90% goes to buying kids toys.<\/p>\n

You should probably give to Charity A<\/em>. \u00a0The malaria nets are known to improve the outcomes of the kids they reach, so, dollar for dollar, you know your gift has changed someone\u2019s life for the better. \u00a0Remember you\u2019re not just buying warm and fuzzy feelings for yourself.<\/p>\n

I like to use every time I make a donation (political or otherwise) to a group as a reminder to give to one of the groups reviewed and recommended by GiveWell. \u00a0So, whichever advocacy group you gave to in the section above, would you consider donating the same amount to one of GiveWell\u2019s charities<\/a>?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"