Thread by @ecJulie

Thread: #XR isnt about climate

Stuart Basden Co-founder Extinction Rebellion says XR not about Climate (that's just a symptom of a toxic system that has infected the ways we relate to each other as humans and to all life)"

XR is about #decolonialism
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XR about #decolonialism: Basden says "how European ‘civilisation’ spread around the globe thru cruelty & violence over the last 600 years of colonialism, where the roots of the infections go much further back"
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Basden #XR: "#Europeans spread their toxicity around the world, they brought torture, genocide, carnage & suffering to the ends of the earth. Their cultural myths justified the horrors, idea that indigenous people were animals (not humans)"
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#XR about #decolonialism: the constructed delusions that have been coded into societies & institutions around the world:
White supremacy
Patriarchy
Eurocentrism
Hetero-sexism/Heteronormativity
Class hierarchy
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Basden #XR: "To focus on climate’s breakdown (symptom) without focusing attention on toxic delusions (causes) is a form a denialism. Worse, it’s racist & sexist form of denialism, that takes away from the necessary focus of the need for all of us to de-colonise our selves
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So Extinction Rebellion isn’t about #climate. Not even about climate justice"

Basden says "we are missing the deeper problems plaguing our culture, if we only talk about the climate"

🗣 Basden's grp of delusions 'the causes' are issues for our #Govts to solve not activist
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🗣 Basden 'symptoms & causes' are somewhat baffling. I'm confused abt whether XR is or isnt a grassroot climate movement or just a cult rebellion against society today, selective on past colonialism, dislike european civilisation, decolonialism, reparations, marxism, #TheLeft

#ExtinctionRebellion #decolonialism #XR #ClimateChange #Marxism #TheLeft #Eurocentrism
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Thread: Extinction Rebellion cult wears climate mask to hide #FarLeft ideology: #Socialist #Marxist #Totalitarian #antiCapitalist #antiEconomic Growth 👇

https://twitter.com/AStrongerOZ/status/1181701255569100800?s=20

Extinction Rebellion is a anarchy cult that wants to bring down the current #Government system

https://twitter.com/AmyMek/status/1181662503291498496?s=20