Comment on Just Stop Oil protestors interrupt UK’s biggest games event EGX
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 8 months agoThe stance appears to be - "We're not trying to change the minds of the people whose lives we disrupt because they are all mindless morons who have never cared about the environment and deserve to made miserable. And of course we aren't really disrupting them anyway - any real disruption is caused by people out to discredit us. Everyone I meet is angry at me for some reason."
I just don't think it is very effective as a way of driving the change you want to see, as it tends to promote the belief 'ah environmentalists - they're arseholes'
gmtom@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The problem is those kinds of people think that no matter what we do. If we go protest oil depots its “they’re just making it harder for workers trying to dontheir jobs” if we go to the HQ of Shell its the same or “its going to be the janitor that cleans up” or if we go to the houses of oil execs or politicians like Rishi Sunak it’s “what if his kids were home, these people are dangerous” or for literally any scenario you have things like “but I bey they use electricity .hypocrites” or “bet zero means we’d have to stop breathing!! That’s what they actually want” or a thousand other dumbass takes.
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 8 months ago
Keep telling yourself that. You set yourself to only preach to the fully converted.
gmtom@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t need to tell myself anything. Barry (62) who thinks climate change isn’t real, has voted Tory consistently since he was 18 and would practically cum in his trousers at an excuse to be violent to any group of people the mail tells him are bad, tells me plenty.
Barry was never, ever going to do anything constructive no matter how we protest, so why waste effort trying to appease him?
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 8 months ago
And you’ve convinced yourself that everyone who disagrees with your approach is Barry apparently.
They aren’t.