The founding of Earth First! was reportedly to create a group more extreme to draw fire away from other environmental groups. “The people that are easily named extreme make the people who were extreme seem suddenly reasonable,” said a former Sierra Club executive director.
That’s what groups like PETA do for HSUS. As Michael Spector wrote in The New Yorker in 2003, “It has been argued many times that in any social movement there has to be somebody radical enough to alienate the mainstream-and to permit more moderate influences to prevail. For every Malcolm X there is a Martin Luther King, Jr., and for every Andrea Dworkin there is a Gloria Steinem. Newkirk and PETA provide a similar dynamic for groups like the Humane Society of the United States.”
“For every Malcolm X there is a Martin Luther King…
Let me finish that sentence
…and for every Justin Trudeau there is a Barney the Dinosaur.”
Yeah it really is a communist plot…..always was….
this is exactly how society came to embrace the destruction of the social contract.
This method sounds like the secret addendum to Saul Alinsky’s rules for radicals.
Just adjusting the overton window.
They have learned well how their ideological forebears the communists and Nazis hoodwinked the people.
Sasquatch, nice to hear from you again. Welcome back. Now, where is that Jema 54 staying?
“people that are easily named extreme make the people who were extreme seem suddenly reasonable”
Nope.
I lump them all together and truly know that none of them can be reasoned with.
When their goal is the destruction of my way of life, the difference in their methods seems absurdly trivial.
There all extremists. Some are just duck decoys.
To pull in the dumber supper.