❊ Should We All Start Shaming MTV?

I’m having an internal debate about whether or not I want to actively shame and boycott MTV over their now established trend of reckless racism. The reason I’m finding this difficult is because I know many people who work there who are really decent and nothing like the racist pigs they’re being portrayed as.

MTV is an excellent news and entertainment tv station. It’s also the station that most “gets” the internet and is most smart about it. It’s really sad that a majority of bright and professional people there are getting tarnished because of a few idiots whose idea of comedy is to make fun of people’s misery, enslavement and suicide.

So what does “actively shame and boycott” MTV mean? Here’s what I’m thinking:

• Unfollow all MTV employees on Twitter and ask people who follow me to do the same
• Delete the MTV app from my iPhone and iPad and ask all my readers and family members and friends to do the same
• Delete Beirut Spring posts that recommend watching MTV and downloading their app
• Ask everyone to go to the iTunes store and give their app a 1 star rating
• Appeal to readers who can pull strings to ask businesses not to advertise at MTV
• Stop watching their news bulletins online and reading their website
• Unlike them on Facebook and ask friends and friends of friends to do the same
• Ask all my readers and friends, especially bloggers and activists to actively shame and boycott MTV, as detailed in the points above.

I know I’m just a regular guy and that these measures won’t affect a big corporation like MTV. I don’t want to get all sensational and call the station names, but I want to believe that at least I’m making a small difference in furthering the cause of racial equality, compassion and harmony in Lebanon.