Do you not remember the protests for civil rights? The sit ins? The marches? The protests outside the white house?
No? I’m from the UK, as is the subject of this article, why would we remember what happened in some other country? I’m also a millennial, would I even remember the protests for civil rights in your country if I had been from there?
Just food for thought is all, you have a point of course :-)
The commenter is being needlessly pedantic like they aren’t aware of the Civil Rights Movement at all. Even assuming they weren’t one of the people that studied it, the USA’s Civil Rights Movement is a common topic of study in history curricula in the UK because it has a significant cultural impact and is an excellent study of protest, the importance of civil rights, racial tensions, and context of the USA which is a dominant presence across the world.
The Civil Rights Movement had an incredibly low popular support before the Civil Rights Act was passed.
Protests are meant to disrupt. No progress is made unless you have a moderate and an extreme movement. That way the status quo compromises to the moderates to prevent the extreme from gaining ground.
So frankly, Just Stop Oil is too gentle. We won’t see change until people get extreme on their protests against fossil fuels.
No? I’m from the UK, as is the subject of this article, why would we remember what happened in some other country? I’m also a millennial, would I even remember the protests for civil rights in your country if I had been from there?
Just food for thought is all, you have a point of course :-)
I’m from the UK. Also a millennial. Being ignorant about defining moments in world history can’t be pinned on either of those things.
The suffragettes were pretty disruptive, even the peaceful ones. The bombing suffragettes were extremely disruptive.
Ultimately the Suffragists ended up having more of an impact on getting women the vote than the Suffragettes.
Yeah I realized after I made the comment that this was based in the UK. That’s my bad. I don’t really have an excuse lmao
The commenter is being needlessly pedantic like they aren’t aware of the Civil Rights Movement at all. Even assuming they weren’t one of the people that studied it, the USA’s Civil Rights Movement is a common topic of study in history curricula in the UK because it has a significant cultural impact and is an excellent study of protest, the importance of civil rights, racial tensions, and context of the USA which is a dominant presence across the world.
The Civil Rights Movement had an incredibly low popular support before the Civil Rights Act was passed.
Protests are meant to disrupt. No progress is made unless you have a moderate and an extreme movement. That way the status quo compromises to the moderates to prevent the extreme from gaining ground.
So frankly, Just Stop Oil is too gentle. We won’t see change until people get extreme on their protests against fossil fuels.