• Funderpants @lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    I’m not sure what to take from this second half, is protest only valid if it happens under a set of circumstances and targets you’ve chosen? Is protest by a westerner invalid if they don’t take a net zero canoe to India or China or Saudi Arabia to deface something there? Surely not.

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      5 months ago

      Well, depending on who you ask, a protest from a westerner is invalid simply because it’s a westerner.

      Doesn’t even matter if it’s supporting a “non-westerner” cause, because then you’re just another colonizing westerner appropriating something you couldn’t possibly undertand. Regardless of your actual understanding, of course.

      I really don’t know what the OP comment is even trying to say, it just comes off as weirdly confrontational.