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Two comments down from mine just says "no", lol.
Another suggests that a local coop is better than a megacorp product made in China, which is something I would argue with a bit, but at least engages with the question.
Others assume this is "consumer activism", the takeaway being to not care about this. Several other comments have this vein but are much more dismissive. Of course, the question here was not only about organizing a mass boycott, and so these replies miss a lot of the point, and so far I have yet to meet a single communist that thinks individual moral questions are completely irrelevant as a consumer/worker role. Unless hexbears are now going to ignore a person being an American cop, imperialist soldier, or Lockheed Martin marketer. Or ignore that a person buys nakedly abusive products for their hobby when they absolutely don't need to.
Best to treat each other with respect and be minimally consistent with one's positions.
I missed some of those comments, my bad.