This post is astounding, as a founding member of a climate change movement openly admits that climate change is not the main issue - rather, homphobia, racism, colonialism and capitalism are the main targets of his movement.
Let that sink in: the main thrust of these climate change activists is against broader social issues:
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.
Okay, that isn't so crazy, although it does seem like false advertising. I'd like them to explain how India and China (major polluters) get a magical pass from this sort of scrutiny. For that matter, the Soviet Union was an ecological disaster, despite not being capitalist.
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.
How interesting. Only Europeans spread cruelty and violence around the globe. What of the Mongols? The Arabs? The Turks? The Chinese? No major world power became a major world power through peaceful means.
I'm all for critiques of colonialism, but to single out one group is nonsense. Europeans were nowhere in Sudan, Somalia, Congo (etc) until the 1800s. In fact, here's a map of the Ottoman Empire:
Look at that, the Ottoman Empire had colonized Europe about 600 years ago. It also had control over North Africa. Of course the Ottomans were not the only Muslim power. Various Arab empires also colonized Africa, taking 80+ million blacks as slaves (castrating the males, incidentally):
600 years ago, and no Europeans in charge. Why is that region a shambles? The Arabs, who ruled it from 800 to 1800, deserve the lion's share of the blame.
Look at that, the Ottoman Empire had colonized Europe about 600 years ago. It also had control over North Africa. Of course the Ottomans were not the only Muslim power. Various Arab empires also colonized Africa, taking 80+ million blacks as slaves (castrating the males, incidentally):
600 years ago, and no Europeans in charge. Why is that region a shambles? The Arabs, who ruled it from 800 to 1800, deserve the lion's share of the blame.
As Europeans spread their toxicity around the world, they brought torture, genocide, carnage and suffering to the ends of the earth.
In some cases, yes. Europeans did many bad things, but who are these 'Europeans'? Do they include the Sephardic Jews who ran most of the slave plantations in the New World?
I don't think the Mongols went around spreading love and kindness.
Their cultural myths justified the horrors, such as the idea that indigenous people were animals (not humans), and therefore God had given us dominion over them.
No citation given. Which indigenous peoples? Which Europeans?
This was used to justify a multi-continent-wide genocide of tens of millions of people.
Which continent? Which peoples? Who justified this genocide? We are left clueless.
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.
Examples?
There is stark evidence that everyday racial bias continues in Britain, now, today.
Yes, like Muslim rape gangs that are aided and protected by police and social workers.
The delusions of hetero-sexism/heteronormativity propagate the idea that heterosexuality is ‘normal’ and that other expressions of sexuality are deviant.
Those who do not have children are deviants, from an evolutionary perspective. There are various theories of how homosexuals can aid in group selection, but this is, again, a deviation from the norm.
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