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Radical climate protests linked to increases in public support for moderate organizations (www.nature.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh, but I'm sure I've had people telling me that protest and disruption just turns people against the cause

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The paper makes it clear that it can โ€” and it's actually important to avoid doing things like random murder. But the kind of nonviolent acts we've seen so far aren't a problem.

They also had a null result on policy support; the main impact was activating people towards more moderate activist groups.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

This is "being mean to racists makes them more racist" level bullshit.

People support more "moderate" (read: ineffective) organisations because the oil barons and billionaire owned media invest as much of their essentially endless resources as they need to in to turning the public against any form of effective protest and vilifying anyone who poses an actual threat to them.

Don't do their work for them.