Lmao go to an indigenous protest you fucking dweeb.
Fortunately, there is now a growing BIPOC Environmental & Climate Justice Collective in Berlin, where we share these experiences of being silenced or tokenized and work together on how to link anti-racism and inequality in climate justice.
Or do this?
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There are legitimate differences in the threats climate change presents to minority communities. And many “solutions” to climate change end up as little more than poor-taxes that disproportionately fall on these communities.
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These are just proxies for class conflict. None of the performative identity politics BS is helpful when it’s just PMCs forming cliques in the lunch room.
To check I’m understanding, what are you calling performative identity politics BS?
Just gonna reply to my own post and not delete since I’m not a coward.
I got this wrong, the author is actually POC and does have some genuine critiques with elements of the climate activist space in Germany—not US. Why was this posted in c/dunk tank?
With that said, the article itself has some disingenuous takes on the face of it, though I’m willing to be corrected. There’s this bait and switch in which promoting low or no meat diets is equivocated with neglecting the harm done by palm oil production. I absolutely agree that western activists can do much better jobs at highlighting where their corporations are causing harm through environmental degradation and violence against indigenous peoples, but the framing used was weird, claiming that vegans promoting a plant-based diet was neglecting leveling critiques at palm oil production.
There’s other things too, but the general trend is a fairly surface level critique when I know there’s more complex aspects to a lot of the issues raised. Also a degree of naïveté about how power is going to respond to genuine criticism— trust me, everyone is dismissed and sidelined if they target the sacred cows of capitalism
