“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
― John F. Kennedy
Peacdful protest was the compromise and its well past time the owning class was reminded of this.
I hear the narrative that people shouldn’t protest in this way but I have taken to asking what is the alternative? If you are silent, your discontent will go unnoticed. The real problem is that we are having to do this at all. As far as I’m concerned, these people are genuine heroes, fighting against a lobby masquerading as a government. A damn shame
The only thing this is telling activists is that pacifist protesting isn’t going to work, so the next step will be hostile/violent protesting. This is a bad predicament.
A spokesperson for the campaign said: “Section 7 of the Public Order Act 2023, a law drafted by the fossil fuel lobby, was introduced in April by Priti Patel, and covers ‘interference with the use or operation of key national infrastructure’…"
A lobby masquerading as a government indeed.
The test to see whether you agree with an argument like this, is imagining people protesting something you are vehemently in favour of. If you’d still agree with it then, then the logic holds.
The argument is thus : you need a lot of people on board to effect change in a democracy. The protests are not winning popular support - in fact the opposite. The public are distressed, and actually turn against the cause.
Edit : downvoting explainers . Great work .
Lemmy is full of 12 year olds
