to dislike Extinction Rebellion

[Azeema]

I live in farming village. We are getting in harvest.
But today on village green extinction rebellion has decided to have a party with drums, loud music and a megaphone. Green is right opposite care home for elderly.
I asked them, who are you protesting? There are no corporations here. Everyone is aware of environment as we grow your food.
They have been very rude, refusing to turn down noise despite disabled residents with migraines suffering.
They made me very upset talking about how England could grow own food and have lower footprint if not so many people (I’m an immigrant) looking at me like I should leave country.

This one ?

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TBH with you OP, the wonderful thing about this country is that we can celebrate, protest, demonstrate peaceably, without fear of being thrown into prison, tortured or executed.

TBH with you it has its base in Hackney, I sincerely doubt they are thinking any immigrants should go home, Hackney is wonderfully diverse area of many cultures.

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Despise them.

ha tell them britain hasnt been able to grow all its own food since Napoleon considered invading

No. This is different place.
And yes, three of them surround me and tell me too many people in England and we should not import anything not even food because of footprint causing climate change and sea levels rising means not enough room in England for so many. I know what they said to me. You were not there.
They also lied and said it would be over at 4, is still going on.
So doubt all you want, but they were very rude to me.
I thought you need license to protest? I ask for it and they just stared at me. Now they doing a siren and shouting,
This peaceful village. All we have are farms and recycling Center.

I think they're fab. They - and the climate scientists - seem to be the only people that have recognised that the climate crisis is the number 1 priority right now.

To be fair their guide to doing Yoga in prison kept me laughing for a week. Its better than bringing back The Young Ones.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-48147915

They even ask me about my children, how many, and try to shame me.
Like saying “too many”.

I agree with climate and being green. I even think of donating to them. But not after this.

Yeah I pretty much agree with all their aims. The way they're goin about it though Ive never seen such a well aimed shot in the foot.

Clearly they need to attract normal families like yours to be credible.

Cannot abide them. I live and work in London and had one lady told me her sister had had her radiotherapy appointment cancelled the day before and she had been blocked trying to get across the river to see her elderly uncle. That was just one of the stories. We had shit loads of people unsure how to get to their destinations. I myself have a disability and don't get paid much. On the Saturday my bus was diverted to Victoria and I was forced to pay extra for the tube to go backwards, necessitating me walking up and down stairs, which is painful and something I try to avoid, and arrived for work an hour late. It cost me more to travel that morning than I made for the hour of work and another to go back.

They went back to their well paid jobs.

I live in a town where XR are vERY active. I know two people in particular who are very vocal about their involvement with them. Both fly abroad for holidays at least once a year and one is about to have her fourth child

I love them. How many people are aware of the climate emergency right now because of the work they have been doing?

I highly doubt anyone within Extinction Rebellion implied they don’t like immigrants.

People having boatloads of children IS causing catastrophic climate damage, it’s fact. They’re not asking to be dicks.

I've been hesitant about forming an opinion on them but you've confirmed my misgivings, OP. The kind of behaviour you've had to witness today will not bring anyone over to their cause - and I am someone who agrees that climate change is the most pressing moral and political issue we currently face. I know some fine people who are affiliated with them, but the group in your village sound like a bunch of idiots. The problem with direct action groups is that they can attract the sort that likes a noisy bandwagon to jump onto and for them it's really not about the cause at all.

They threw gloss green paint on our new local insect hotel last week protesting against the company that sponsored it.

Idiots.

@TheJoxter
Yes they happy to waste electricity with loudspeakers and loud music.

For the cause but not the methods.

Some very extreme persons are putting a bad name against us environmentally minded folkes and we generally don’t like it.

We want the exposure and we want people to all do their but but we don’t want to put cities on gridlock and disrupt the peace.

Change must happen and must happen quick, I would rather see constructive talks instead of stage rushing etc.

Yes constructive talks take longer and don’t grab headlines but even in this time of great urgency we can’t hurl ourselves headlong into situations that may do more harm than good.

I think they’ve got the right idea in general- we’re in serious shit right now - but these people you’ve encountered sound revolting. Hopefully most of them are a bit more normal.

@stayingstrange
Yes. I was shocked too how when I was saying please because of care home residents try and keep noise down that they did not care. I said some are disabled and get migraines. It is also Center for head injury people to get better and they need quiet too. They just felt like it ok to make people suffer.

@HappyParent2000 personally I find there’s a weird psychological element to it that gets my back up. It’s like I turn into a teenager when people start preaching.

I haven’t eaten meat in years, I loathe the taste and texture. Yet when I read these things saying you’re an evil person who’s destroying the world if you eat a hamburger, I find myself wanting a hamburger

I realise I may have some issues to explore in therapy

@MustardScreams
“I highly doubt anyone within Extinction Rebellion implied they don’t like immigrants. ”
They did not imply. They were direct and obvious.

One thing I can’t wait for is non-animal meat. I cut back on eating meat as much as possible without dropping it completely.

When the alternative is there I will likely switch to all but a nice steak for our wedding anniversary and the occasional real burger. Eating actual meat once every few months would be brilliant!

I can live in hope as the meat like alternatives are coming, for now I stick to having 2-3 meat free days each week at least.

I do agree with XR's concerns - it is terrifying. But I feel that targeting corporations and governments is more important than the average man on the street.

And while I agree with the right to protest, you cannot intimidate people to try and scare them.

@MustardScreams
On children. Yes I know environmental issue. But right after saying too many people in england and need people (like me) to leave so can grow all own food. The next question was do I have children and how many it had bad vibe like too many brown people taking up room in England and how dare I add to brown people problem. That was feeling they were giving me.
Also, glaring at me like because i immigrant I should not be complaining about things they do because they from here. It was not nice at all.

I feel sick now and going to go. Just too upsetting. I am now afraid one of them will come on here and be nasty. I can’t take it. I will have to delete my account.