It's not as if ABC's decision demonstrates a sea change in America, or even a new standard for TV networks—at best, it demonstrates that ABC either has a zero-tolerance policy for racism or was worried about the wave of negative publicity (and potential advertiser boycotts) about to hit it.
Terms like "body-shaming" and "sexism" and "boycott" were bandied about, as they now are in all debates about anything.
The boycott involved about 20% of the school population, not so much in the city of Charleston as in rural Kanawha County.
The insistence by Turkey that the Turkish-Cypriots should boycott talks about membership of the European Union until Turkey itself can join them also causes anger; the local economy is almost entirely dependent on Turkish government handouts.
Rosie Boycott talked about the modern horror of driving around the M25 in the middle of the night where she encountered the food vans circling our capital "like vultures" waiting to swoop in and resupply every shop and restaurant.
In addition to the opposition boycott, anxiety about the poor state of the economy is foremost in voters' minds.
