One of the founders of XR let’s it all hang out on this old Medium article.
First his credentials.
I’ve been with Extinction Rebellion (XR) from the start. I was one of the 15 people in April 2018 who came together and made the collective decision to try to create the conditions that would initiate a rebellion. I was a coordinator of one of the original five working groups, and I’ve been organising with XR day-and-night since then (frugally living off my savings so I don’t have to work, having quit an industry that paid me £1000/week). And I’ve been in RisingUp (the organisation from which XR has emerged) since the first RisingUp action in November 2016. I’m a RisingUp Holding Group member, and a member of the XR Guardianship Team.
And for the sake of transparency: that previous paragraph is all about me ‘pulling rank’ — I’m trying to convince you to listen to what I have to say…
And then he tells us the real problem.
And I’m here to say that XR isn’t about the climate. You see, the climate’s breakdown is a symptom of a toxic system of that has infected the ways we relate to each other as humans and to all life. This was exacerbated when European ‘civilisation’ was spread around the globe through cruelty and violence (especially) over the last 600 years of colonialism, although the roots of the infections go much further back.
And lays it out in detail.
Euro-Americans violently imposed and taught dangerous delusions that they used to justify the exploitation and reinforced our dominance, while silencing worldviews that differed or challenged them. The UK’s hand in this was enormous, as can be seen by the size of the former British empire, and the dominance of the English language around the world. There is stark evidence that everyday racial bias continues in Britain, now, today. It’s worth naming some of these constructed delusions that have been coded into societies and institutions around the world:
- The delusion of white-supremacy centres whiteness and the experience of white people, constructing and perpetuating the myth that white people and their lives are somehow inherently better and more valuable than people of colour.
- The delusion of patriarchy centres the male experience, and excludes/hinders female assigned people from public life (reducing them to a possession or object for ownership or consumption). Patriarchy teaches dominating and competitive behaviours, and emphasises the idea that the world is a place of scarcity, separation and powerlessness.
- The delusions of Eurocentrism include the notion that Europeans know what is best for the world.
- The delusions of hetero-sexism/heteronormativity propagate the idea that heterosexuality is ‘normal’ and that other expressions of sexuality are deviant.
- The delusions of class hierarchy uphold the theory that the rich elite are better/smarter/nobler than the rest of us, and make therefore better decisions.
To bottom line this guy he is opposed to the modern world and the two sexes. And has allied himself with a nuisance.
This guy is really dissatisfied where he lives. The English language has become the language of commerce most used but is no more effective than other European languages in promoting trade. He opposes colonialism that built infrastructure such as roads, rail, buildings, electrical and sewage and ultimately became too expensive to support, established world wide commerce through jobs and trade, He opposes the White race that created the inventions and advances in medicine, infrastructure that is the modern world. And he is opposed to Biblical message of a man and an woman relationship that is promoted throughout the text.
Conflation of all causes to justify one is pretty weak.
So, I’m back to a bunch of spoiled, defiant brats who want to raise hell, just to act out their lack of maturity and utter failing to comprehend how civilization actually works.
I have a question.. what are progressives progressing towards? Not a trick question.. I genuinely want to know their desired outcome?
To me it looks like a pre industrial, third world civilization, run by a world wide oligarchy.
Easy. Hell on Earth. Heaven for them, Hell for the rest of us.
Progressivism is monotonic change, with diverse qualifications, including planned populations, minority regimes, social justice adventurism, redistributive change, quasi-scientific prophecies, quasi-religions or “ethics” (e.g. Pro-Choice, selective, opportunistic), conflation of sex, gender, and transgender spectrum physical and/or mental attributes, etc. Progressive ideologies have varied wildly throughout recorded human history.
They imagine a future Utopia where all Mankind lives in peace and harmony; sort of a secular “Heaven on Earth.” The main problem with their vision is they never account for the sociopaths and their allies who make up about 10% of our population and about 80-90% of the politicians and bureaucrats in DC.
We are now at a crossroads where we, as a nation, have to decide if we want go down the road to insanity that the Progressives want to travel, or if we can restore the Western Civilization that defeated the international slave trade, Nazism, Fascism and was on the verge of destroying Communism until they retreated and regrouped as the Progressive Movement currently infecting our school system.
These XR people would fail junior high social. This joker should make a list of the countries and cultures where he is allowed to spout the drivel he supports, and then make a list of the countries and cultures where he would be jailed or worse. I’m pretty sure the evil nations he despises are virtually the only ones who would tolerate this kinda of drivel. And thank goodness we do. Allowing this junior high drop out to promote his immature political beliefs is something we should all cherish. Maybe he should too.
the roots of the infections go much further back.
With ideas like that , you can see any toxic their ideas are.
Diversity (i.e. color judgment) including racism, sexism, etc. breeds adversity, is a clear and progressive problem with normalization.
Resources are finitely available and accessible.
Europeans have an opinion and a platform.
Male and female sex. Masculine and feminine gender (i.e. physical and mental sex-correlated attributes, e.g. sexual orientation). Sex and gender are normally distributed in service evolutionary fitness, and, ideally, social integrity.
Classes, yes, “make therefore better decisions”, does not logically follow, and is inferred by social activists, and people who defer to mortal gods.
It seems to be all about polysyllabic neologisms crafted in mediocre universities.
One thing struck me when I read the names of the fallen on my local War Memorial. The thing that struck me was that they were exclusively the names of young men.
My family name is there, several young male relatives I never knew. The last war was a fight to the death with one of the worst evils the world has ever faced. These young men saved us from white-supremacy, Eurocentrisim, Patriarchy, heteronormativity, and class hierarchy.
How dare XR suggest they are from the same mould! They would take flight at the sight of an angry German with a gun, thank god those young men stood their ground.
Extinction Rebellion are useless pointless idiots, encouraged by those media luvvies who should all know better.
You bring up the reason I believe the draft should be restarted.
He learned his lessons well. This is what they teach in liberal Sunday School these days.
Really, all these lefty groups are religious cults prophesying the end of the world.
Really nothing new. Old as the hills.
Only, because they combine their prophecy with politics, they are totalitarian.
Clearly people with issues, is a common attribute needed for membership of the XR movement.
I pity the so called victims of his white colonists ancestors, who share his sir name. He intends to pay reparations to them. Judging by his “issues”, expressed so creatively and carefully in this outpourings of nonsense, those victims won’t be getting much….thanks to him.
Euro-Americans violently imposed and taught dangerous delusions that they used to justify the exploitation and reinforced our dominance, while silencing worldviews that differed or challenged them
Should read:
Euro-Americans pursued an ideology of freedom and progress that demonstrably improved civilization. Centuries ago some of the colonial powers like Spain, Portugal, Great Britain, France, China, Japan, the Ottoman Empire, and others used force to colonize, repress, and eradicate indigenous history, beliefs, and social structure. Virtually all of those former colonizers have long since renounced this destructive approach. A few countries like Iran, China, and Russia still have, to varying degrees, an expansionist mindset.
Makes more sense now, doesn’t it?
Reading the comments on the original article is both interesting and entertaining. While a lot of them seem to go along with the global-warming shtuff most seem to disagree quite strongly with all the other drivel he spouts.
However, this particular comment stood out for me:
I approve of pat c’s message.
– white-supremacy
– patriarchy
– Eurocentrism
– hetero-sexism/heteronormativity
– class hierarchy
Apart from a bit of northern Eurocentrism this sounds like a Polar Bear?
Good observation. ER is raging against bears, White bears, with polar privilege. What their sect really wants is Planned Polar bear for seal social justice and progress.
Bring back the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere, then. Let them fix the problem.
The delusions of hetero-sexism/heteronormativity propagate the idea that heterosexuality is ‘normal’ and that other expressions of sexuality are deviant.
And all this time I thought it was an asteroid that did in the dinosaurs.
Maybe they just got confused about what gender they were?
I wonder what Darwin would have to say about this “new” development?
(Personally, I’m not surprised that these nuts get confused about if men are men and women are women.)
ER seems to stand for Extermination Rebellion, a Pro-Choice, selective, opportunistic, avoidance, sect.
Sex, gender, and the transgender spectrum (“rainbow”). Men are from Mars, women are from Venus… and babies… fetuses are delivered by Stork, or, if deemed unworthy of life, are planned, and or cannibalized for profitable parts. Apparently, the wicked solution, is analogous to the prophecy of [catastrophic] [anthropogenic] climate change as a quintessential example of “noble cause”… corruption.
This is just Blair’s law in operation.
“The delusions of Eurocentrism include the notion that Europeans know what is best for the world.”
He’s talking about himself, right?
He sure knows a LOT about delusions. 😀
Yes, it comes from his extensive personal experience.
The narratives, ‘facts’ and twisted viewpoints and interpretations within that article show what crazy ratbags these extinction Rebellion fools are. I’m just going to dismiss the whole thing as years of drug experimentation, followed by many more years of outright drug abuse, and the associated brain atrophy and imbalances.
https://medium.com/p/42a0a73d9d49/responses/show
Nuttier than a Scorch Peanut bar.
An English speaking British non-Muslim hobnob complaining about racial bias and dominance. There is only one way to answer that. In a way Merriam Webster won’t solve.
“Ei peijakas todellakaan kiinnosta sinun itsetyytyväinen hölinäsi dominoinnista. Syytät vähemmistökielisiä eurooppalaisia siitä, mihin koet oman viiteryhmäsi syyllistyneen. Euroopassa on muitakin kieliä kuin englanti, jos et ole sattunut huomaamaan. Portugalia, espanjaa, baskia, katalaania, ranskaa, iiriä, gaelia, saksaa, italiaa, puolaa, retoromaniaa, islantia, fääriä, bokmålia, tanskaa, slovakkia, sloveenia, unkaria, viroa, lättiä, useaa saamen kieltä, kreikkaa, ukrainaa, ihan noin muutamia mainitakseni. Emme näytä ihan samalta, etkä tunnu muistavan vähemmistöolemassaoloamme, mutta olemme kaikki nykyeurooppalaisia emmekä ole tippaakaan vastuussa 1700-luvun orjakaupasta. Eurooppa on itsekin monimuotoinen kokoelma orjakauppiaiden ja orjien jälkeläisiä. Kuten on myös esimerkiksi lyhyen aikaa brittihallinnon alaisena ollut Etelä-Afrikan tasavalta. Pönkität itseäsi kuvittelemalla ensin Britannian suuruutta ja sitten pönkität itseäsi lisää vähättelemällä paisuttamasi ‘Euroopan’ merkitystä. Tosiasia on, että esivanhempasi ovat marssittaneet armeijaansa mennen tullen minun esivanhempieni yli, mutta se ei ole nykybrittikumppaniesi syy. Eroa silti EU:sta ja tee elämästämme helpompi.”
Eat that, rich British elitist-pig.
My ancestors did not ‘go over your’ Finnish ancestors. The UK amongst other European countries exploited the African Slave Trade as it was not created by Europeans. The slave trade and colonialism did not make the 19 century wealth in Europe but openness to science, hard (European) work and competency. The reason is all previous empires used colonialism with slavery and it didn’t or couldn’t make any more wealth than the number of people, slaves, horses along with the amount of land to grow food. Portugal was the largest purchaser of African slaves and yet it is not a wealthy country. The UK had an agricultural revolution followed by the industrial and things took off with the invention of the steam engine. This single invention was a multiplier allowing the UK to behave as if it was a much larger country with an ever increasing number of horses. It is no coincidence that Horse Power is still the measure of engine power. Everything else followed and all who were willing to find out how it all worked were free to join in, and Europe did and in the case of Germany, out perform the UK.
The UK will eventually leave the EU but we will all still remain European inspite of the EU.
Anyway, your reply targets all of us who live here in the UK.
I find it amusing to read the first paragraph where our young XR author attempts to define his privilege.
If we ignore the little bit of virtual signalling (“I gave up my highly paid job cause *I* believe in the planet!!!”) we have, in his own words, a collection of groups, working committees, other groups, groups that sprung out of or into other groups and also possibly Splitters!
This little collection dates back to about 2016, but probably much further back.
Now the intent of this little rememberstration is to draw attention to how much street cred our XR author has within the movement, but let us be honest here, what it is really pointing out is they are a collective of committees who have taken doing nothing, rebadged it with a new name, and then doubled down on the nothing.
Compare and contrast to the tractor protests in the NL.
XR, via the power of a working committee and discussion group, a few ugly relationship break ups and some egos, will be yesterday’s news in 18 months. Sure the same people will be involved with largely the same message and they will still do in real terms the same amount of nothing, but don’t expect the name to remain.
Aside from all the listed badness of Western Civilization, there is one characteristic that they fail to mention: competence. Then again, if these poor creatures were actually competent at anything, they wouldn’t belong to a loser organization like XR.
Scary global warming name was re branded Climate Change because the global warming fear mongering industry was exposed as an overblown fraud . It had run it’s course and people were well aware of the science fiction that went into creating the fraud . Hockey sticks and all .
Climate Change was created to act as a basket to collect grievances of all types .
A volcano goes off ….see climate change
It snows in October …see evidence of climate change
A polar bear starves …. yep climate change
Basically you can blame everything on climate change. Oh no, it’s not the stupid politicians
corrupt UN or the rent seeking parasites…. it’s an “existential threat ” .
Full marks to the person who laid out what XR actually is and of that there is sadly retrospective truth .
Mistakes of catastrophic portions were made and we are still making some of them .
If we are to make progress lets focus on the real problems not a con -game orchestrated by the UN
justified on incomplete cherry picked “science”. Money was paid on the condition scientists produced pro global warming stories . (No scary global warming story … NO money ) The bought stories were then turned into propaganda to justify UN globalist objectives, which they have admitted . The goal was globalization , one world government and the destruction of capitalism . See Maurice Strong former Under – Secretary -General UN . He lays out the motives very clearly . The fraud was used to justify raising taxes “to save the planet” and feed the UN , indirectly to allow rent seeking corporations to fleece tax payers through government sanctioned subsidies .
You need a lot of people working together to pull a fraud off this big but they did it till the world woke up . .
Extinction Rebellion will get further by being open .