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Hamburg: Climate activists let air out of tyres of 33 cars (mainly SUVs!) again (www.ndr.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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From the article: *Large SUVs were particularly affected. According to the police, notes were attached to the cars indicating that they were harmful to the climate. The tyres were not punctured, but merely deflated. The cars were parked in the area between the S-Bahn line and Elbchaussee around Kanzleistraße. *

Personally, I like this protest way more than glueing themselves to the streets, causing traffic jams where cars burn gasoline for hours and ambulances / firefighters / police gets stuck, putting innocent life in danger.

The article is in German. Warning: this link leads to google translate.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If your example with feminism shows us something, it's that no matter what you do your actions will be misconstrued by bad actors and your image will be tarnished in a counter-campaign regardless, so if you want to protest something, just skip the phase when you do polite convenient gentle reminders, and go straight to violence and terrorism, if that's what you will be seen as anyway.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Considering they let the air out of the tires and left a polite finger-wagging note, I don't think they skipped the gentle reminder phase.

Daily reminder that property damage is not violence, but random acts of property damage isn't the same thing as genuine activism. We must be mindful of the purpose of a political act, and whether the act actually accomplishes that purpose. What is the purpose of inconveniencing random SUV owners? Will this affect any change, or will it merely entrench people's existing attitudes?

Imo if you're gonna slash tires, do it to the politicians. More news coverage, clearer message, and you don't come off as petty against people for having the "wrong" kind of social performance (eg driving an SUV instead of an electric) and trivialize the issue.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I also advocate for the enlightened position of "murder people in bigger cars than me"