Examples include Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion here in the UK.

Personally, I think some charities are groups are genuine in their outburst wanting large firms to stop strangling the natural beauty for profit, however for me there is a red line that can be crossed.

Blocking roads preventing medical care, people going to work, interview and possibly a nice vacation away. This doesn’t really help but make the public look at your group in a bad light.

The same can also be said when attempting to destroy priceless art for a cheap publicity stunt knowing it’ll get clicks on social media.

TLDR - I think some groups are genuinely good whilst others are just shouting in a speakerphone, pissing everyone else off.

What do YOU think?

  • Nytefyre@kbin.melroy.org
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    2 months ago

    I think the causes are right. The execution is just very poor. I don’t understand what blocking traffic has to do with it, I don’t understand what throwing paint around has to do with it.

    Honestly, I think protests should be a matter of information vs information and using the right information to combat the lies and deceit projected by those they’re against.

    You lose traction of your cause if all that you’re doing is trying to be the biggest intolerant prick.

    I didn’t like the Black Lives Matter movement, because their ranks contained people that destroyed streets and they seemed to just budge right in on everything.

    I didn’t like the Stop Oil movement, because all that they did were examples of what I brought up about blocking traffic and throwing paint.