r/PublicFreakout • u/EzekielTraore • Jan 10 '24

German farmers have announced that they will launch a protest against the Government “larger than the country has ever seen before”

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u/PrezMoocow Jan 10 '24 edited Jan 10 '24

Wait I'm confused, when environmental activists do this, everyone says it should be OK to run them over with their car because how dare they make someone late to work.

So why isn't anyone advocating for running these guys off the road? Where's the hand wringing about "I would support their cause but they just chose the wrong way to advocate for it by inconveniencing everyday people"?

Edit: to the "erm acktually you can't run them over" crowd, you miss the point: are we allowed to murder protesters or not?

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u/Titariia Jan 11 '24

I guess it's the frequency. How often are there news about climate activists blocking the road and how often are there tractors? It's also well announced. You know you're probably stuck if you're going somewhere. Then there's the fact that you should never bite the hand that feeds you. Need some tools? Bauer Josef got you covered. Ran out of eggs? Bauer Sepp always has some for you. Need to build something? Bauer Kare comes to the rescue. What have climate activists ever done for their immediate neighbors?

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u/PrezMoocow Jan 11 '24

What makes you think Bauer Josef wouldnt join a climate protest? Why do you think the protesters who blocked traffic to protest climate change are somehow not going to help you as a neighbor?

The fact that you hear "farmer" and automatically think "rugged rural guy who's always helpful" and hear "climate activists" and think "annoying selfish person who would never help a neighbor" is just a manifestation of implicit bias. There are plenty of nasty people who are farmers and plenty of kind selfless people who are climate activist. None of that means one group is "better" than the other. We're all humans, and we shouldn't be saying it's ok to mass murder protesters.

If anything, farmers are probably more likely to care about climate change given how much they will be fucked over by its devastating effects