Obviously governments are fucking us and future generations over for the future and radical changes need to be made ASAP but it feels like Extinction Rebellion are another Kony 2012.
Examples:
1.They tweeted this
Most police are reasonable people. Some are idiots. No different to the rest of society. We hope that the police will soon join with the rebellion, either passively or actively, in a move that would force the government to the negotiating table.
which shows they're absolutely clueless about structural oppression and how the police operate as agents of the state
2. They've been encouraging people to get arrested to get 'legitimacy' as a protest movement, confident in their privilege that they can just walk away.
Reni-Eddo Lodge rightly called them out on this,:
I can only imagine that those who are excited at the prospect of getting arrested for their activism have not had to contend with a history of people like themselves dying mysteriously in police custody. 😑
3. Disrupting public transport
Because obviously buses and trains are the enemy in the fight against environmental catastrophe...
4. One of its founders is an (alleged) abusive creep
According to a few reports on twitter (
https://twitter.com/EndManagement/status/1118113908118695937).
Also, I walk past the protesters at Marble Arch on my way home and there are a *lot* of white people with dreadlocks. The only good thing about ecological catastrophe is that these people will be wiped off the planet.