A U.K. judge handed down shockingly harsh sentences to peaceful climate activists, sparking outrage and disbelief. Is this justice or suppression of dissent?
You cannot try and disrupt the country if it isn’t doing what you want.
That’s the only kind of protest that works ffs! Banning and criminalizing disruptive protests is a means of silencing dissent and always has been.
What you’re getting in trouble for here is for the disruption, not the message’s content.
That’s what the liberals said to the original Italian antifascists too. And what “regular white people” in India and South Africa said to Gandhi. And what American liberals said to Martin Luther King.
You may think you’re being magnanimous by supporting their right to silently protest in a corner where nobody notices them, but by advocating against effective means, you’re squarely on the side of the politicians and corporations that they’re protesting against and victimized you.
That’s the only kind of protest that works ffs! Banning and criminalizing disruptive protests is a means of silencing dissent and always has been.
That’s what the liberals said to the original Italian antifascists too. And what “regular white people” in India and South Africa said to Gandhi. And what American liberals said to Martin Luther King.
You may think you’re being magnanimous by supporting their right to silently protest in a corner where nobody notices them, but by advocating against effective means, you’re squarely on the side of the politicians and corporations that they’re protesting against and victimized you.