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World snooker championship disrupted by Just Stop Oil protesters in Sheffield
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<blockquote data-quote="ThatRobGuy" data-source="post: 77202264" data-attributes="member: 123415"><p>It's not so much the interruption as it is the property damage.</p><p></p><p>There's obviously the aspects of protest and civil disobedience that people have found to be useful forms of awareness raising over the years, but I think defense of that stops at the line of destroying (or attempting to destroy) property that belongs to someone else.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Plus, as I've mentioned before, protests seem to be more effective when the target of the civil disobedience is the entity that's either committing the perceived injustice (or those who are directly complicit in it), or the entity that actually has the power to make policy to change it.</p><p></p><p>For instance, during the civil rights era sit-ins, people (who were protesting segregated lunch counters) sat at the establishments that were complicit in the segregation movement...there was a connection there "we're protesting at the places that are participating in these unjust actions"...it made sense.</p><p></p><p>What, realistically, were the "Just Stop Oil" protestors looking to accomplish by pouring paint powder on (and trying to superglue their hands to) snooker tables? Or throwing cans of soup and mashed potatoes on historical works of art? Where's the connection to fossil fuel usage?</p><p></p><p>They say that their goal is to get the UK to stop all new fossil fuel projects. Is the snooker player Ronnie O'Sullivan running ecological policy for the UK government now? What am I missing here?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ThatRobGuy, post: 77202264, member: 123415"] It's not so much the interruption as it is the property damage. There's obviously the aspects of protest and civil disobedience that people have found to be useful forms of awareness raising over the years, but I think defense of that stops at the line of destroying (or attempting to destroy) property that belongs to someone else. Plus, as I've mentioned before, protests seem to be more effective when the target of the civil disobedience is the entity that's either committing the perceived injustice (or those who are directly complicit in it), or the entity that actually has the power to make policy to change it. For instance, during the civil rights era sit-ins, people (who were protesting segregated lunch counters) sat at the establishments that were complicit in the segregation movement...there was a connection there "we're protesting at the places that are participating in these unjust actions"...it made sense. What, realistically, were the "Just Stop Oil" protestors looking to accomplish by pouring paint powder on (and trying to superglue their hands to) snooker tables? Or throwing cans of soup and mashed potatoes on historical works of art? Where's the connection to fossil fuel usage? They say that their goal is to get the UK to stop all new fossil fuel projects. Is the snooker player Ronnie O'Sullivan running ecological policy for the UK government now? What am I missing here? [/QUOTE]
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