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Just Stop Oil: do radical protests turn the public away from a cause? Here’s the evidence
(theconversation.com)
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The public are not the people that need to be convinced. Threaten cultural landmarks until politicians stop fighting climate change mitigation.
idk, it still feels like a fucked up thing to target. why not like... their houses?
I'm mostly ok with it because that's how the suffragettes were able to see success. They faced the same "but it hurts the cause" claims
The alternative is a hit list on the people behind the resistance. That will come in time on the present trajectory. This is only the beginning.
i just... harming the cultural artifacts is damaging to all of humanity. they should be targeting the people responsible more directly first. target their houses and their boats and them personally. target their families and the people around them. target the art they own...
hell, the same group does do things that hit the appropriate targets. i just don't think they're going the right direction with the art protests specifically.
the article is right, this isn't going to change anyone's mind one way or the other. it's not going to affect the minds of oil execs. the most it might do is increase the donations to the police that guard the art. it is at Best, mildy counterproductive.
the most it will do is piss everyone off. everyone is already mad, this is just making it worse.
it's destroying our common heritage. the history that we can see on front of us. to learn from where we came and see how we can progress.
so you're more concerned about the status of our stuff than the survival of the species that creates the stuff?
also, what has been destroyed?
nothing. nothing has been destroyed.
First off, nothing was destroyed or even significantly damaged so far.
Secondly, targeting individuals carries a much higher risk of civil litigation, potentially bankrupting the individual protestors for life. It is understandable that people don't really want to risk that. And it is also much less effective if your main goal is to incite media coverage to keep the topic in the public debate (as it is otherwise easily drowned out by what ever is the latest media freak-out incited by pundits like Trump that play a similar game).