Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Farmers Given a Free Pass?
Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Farmers Given a Free Pass?
Media outlets rush to condemn climate change campaigners as "middle class" protesters causing "chaos" while ignoring greater disruption by millionaire landowners
Because farmers vote for the right and the far right who own most of the media ?
farmers vote for the right
The majority of field hands don't vote, either because they don't have legal residency where they're working or they don't have access to voting infrastructure due to their ghettoization or they don't have citizenship under current naturalization laws.
The folks who vote are the exurban land-owners and their administrative staff. They're regularly organized within religious institutions to instill certain socio-economic ideology, they are promoted based on their fealty to the local land barons, and they benefit from the disenfranchisement of their landless field hands which gives them a strong incentive to defend the anti-democratic status quo.
Many farm hands here in the Canadian prairies are local and do otherwise have the means to vote. I would say their lack of education and exposure to critical thinking likely has an impact on who they vote for though.
FarmersLarge Land OwnersFTFY.
“Fuck starmer support the farmer”
I can just see the grin on his farmer face when came up with that one after a couple of ciders
because they are right wing
The not so petite bourgeoisie.
Yeah it makes me so mad when I see farmer using their farming equipment to protest, or truckers using their trucks. Everyone has the right to protest, but that right should be equal. So if they want to organize a protest, gather together somewhere in a large group, that's fine by me. But once they start using their equipment that's where I draw the line.
The reason they are allowed (and often licensed) to use that equipment is because they need it to do their jobs. As soon as they use it for any other purpose, they should not be allowed to do so. It's super disruptive, often unsafe and an abuse of their rights and privileges. The impact their protest has is amplified greatly by the use of the equipment. The right to protest should be equal. I work in IT, what the hell am I supposed to do? Start throwing my laptop at cars? I'll be put in jail if I did that, and rightfully so.
They can all just protest like the rest of the plebs, like me. Any farmer, trucker or whatever appropriating their equipment for anything but their job should immediately lose access to said equipment. They earn the right to use the equipment through permits and licenses, they should lose it if abused.
Everyone has the right to protest, but that right should be equal. So if they want to organize a protest, gather together somewhere in a large group, that's fine by me. But once they start using their equipment that's where draw the line.
Nah. Peaceful protests of a few people on the side of the road doesn't really do much. I prefer dumping manure on the administrative building
I agree, that's exactly my point. Farmers who can do shit like that and truckers who can block roads have a disproportionate amount of power with their protests. The rest of us is relegated to peaceful protest on the side of the road (or usually in a field or on a square). Which becomes a real issue when the truckers ride in convoys for fascism and farmers support the far right.
Obviously vehicles are now allowed. Organize a protest with cars.