Today's thoughts: boycott & strike
In the US all of the NBA teams in the bubble in Orlando, as well as some MLB teams decided not to play their scheduled games. They are doing so as a form of protest against police abuse, this time in the city of Kenosha, Wisconsin. There are multiple news stories about this, such as here , here , and here . The term boycott is being used, but the players are not boycotting the games. Boycott is a consumer not spending their money on a product in protest. To not take part in work as a form of protest, which is what the NBA, WNBA, and MLB players are doing, is called a strike . Here are some news stories using the correct word. Sometimes, in conversation, the right word gets stuck on the tip of your tongue or the wrong word comes out; conversation is extemporaneous and not always full of perfect grammar or terms. But news agencies have copywriters whose job is to catch mistakes and fix them. Even so, not all mistakes are caught.