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>I’ve never accepted the claims that people who hold up traffic to “raise awareness” for global warming were effective

Martin Luther King wrote an essay about people with this exact attitude called "the racism of the polite liberal"

There were obviously just as many people back then who thought his type of activism - e.g. blocking a freeway would never achieve any of his goals. They thought it was just annoying, even though it was successful.

parent pydry 1 month ago

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