Speculative thread (comments welcome). I had a series of twitter interactions yesterday on the topic of Extinction Rebellion (and climate activism more broadly) with people who might roughly be considered part of the "rational centrist" twittersphere. 1/
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While there are valid criticisms to be made of XR, I got a sense from many of the people I interacted with that a lot of the resistance to the protests is influenced by personal distaste for the aesthetics of the event and a dislike of disruption and civil disobedience. 2/
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Agree. That's why, as a rational centrist, I tweeted about expressive dance being a very innocuous form of protest... even if it looks weird and silly to some eyes.
9:59 AM - 13 Oct 2019
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