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Professor Slams Extinction Rebellion as a "Carnival for Middle Classes Who Love to Dress up as Activists"

h/t Gates of Vienna
Professor and sociologist Frank Furedi has slammed the Extinction Rebellion climate change protest as "a carnival for middle classes who love to dress up as activists."

The group has embarked on a 2 week campaign to bring 60 major world cities to a standstill.

In an op-ed, Furedi describes the demonstration as "tens of thousands of adults playing at being children are not so much protesting but putting on a performance of protest."

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-09 04:07|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 Victimhood for the white privileged class. When you make victimhood a commodity in the status game, this is what you get.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-10-09 06:31|| 2019-10-09 06:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Hell, P2K, when you make victimhood a commodity for government money, it's what you get.

But yeah, this is the same dynamic that has suburban mommies buying organic everything at Whole Foods and attributing it to promoting "health" when all they really want is to virtue signal and pretend to themselves they are going to live forever.

Posted by no mo uro 2019-10-09 07:37|| 2019-10-09 07:37|| Front Page Top

#3 you're just another victim, kid

Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2019-10-09 07:52|| 2019-10-09 07:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Buying organic is also conspicuous consumption -- a declaration you can afford crap grown with mysticism and pseudo-science over the just as nutritious regular produce.

See also the people who DON'T have Celiac's while avoiding gluten. Mostly they don't know what gluten is, they just make a show out of being special.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2019-10-09 08:15|| 2019-10-09 08:15|| Front Page Top

#5 I met a tiresome 'Extinction Rebel', otherwise a college lecturer, and proceeded to feed his ego for a while. He was all laughs over 'How we absolutely brought the city to a standstill' and 'Oh, the cops had to beg us ! The Mayor himself came down to talk to us' and so on.

I understand what the author means.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-10-09 08:34|| 2019-10-09 08:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Someone call the burn unit!

Posted by DarthVader 2019-10-09 09:12|| 2019-10-09 09:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Psychomachia cos-play.

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-10-09 15:35|| 2019-10-09 15:35|| Front Page Top

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