Don’t mean to cause an argument war in the comments so please stay civil. But it’s an interesting read.
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Just Stop Oil feels like an astroturf group made by fossil fuel lobbyists to smear the idea of activists while teaching a generation how to fuck up protesting. Their wildly unreliable activities make me not trust them for defacing unrelated things like art. There are other, better ways to protest. And besides, coal is more destructive than oil so this group doesn’t look like they know about environmental sciences. Britain was built on coal - fix that first. It’s already dying, just do the world a favor and finish it off.
The defacement of treasured art is what ruined it for me. Throwing paint on a centuries-old work of art tells me more about how you see your relative worth in the world than it tells me about some cause I just stopped ever wanting to support.
It’s as gauche as scratching your initials into the colosseum, and worse when one drags an organization down too.
A YouTuber I quite like, Tom Nicholas, recently made a video going undercover with Just Stop Oil. Warning, it’s an hour long video, but he has interesting analysis of JSO’s actions and he includes the perspective of their members as to why they do what they do.
jeez, their protests are terrible. and they kept getting worse as I kept reading.
