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@obrerx @actuallyautistic Thats a very good point.

I guess what I was more responding too was other comments like this one:

"I have begun to <wonder> if blocking roads and oil terminals is treated as "terrorism" could it lower the bar to doing things that cause actual terror?"

Which are ignorant of the fact that this is not a new thing, it was happening a decade, two decades, 50 years ago. What has changed is that the climate movement became more mainstream and widespread, so more people see it. (and also because it affects more people with more privileges; in other movements which are more marginalised like the Kurdish movement people are imprisoned for much less and generally receive much more repression).

I mean, its right to be angry and shocked about it, but the point is the governments are not on our side, never were, and never will be. They have been using this narrative with slight variations for decades and probably hundreds of years.

I hope people will become more aware of that.