Just Stop Oil protesters will eventually be proven right – just like the suffragettes before them, an Irish feminist and activist has said.
Just Stop Oil protesters will eventually be proven right – just like the suffragettes before them, according to an Irish feminist and activist.this week, campaigner Elaine Crory said the public were often not on the side of the suffragette movement – going as far as throwing stones, bottles and mud at activists as they were taken into custody.
More than 1,200 artists, athletes and academics have since come together to condemn the “injustice” of the sentences – believed to be the longest ever handed down in the UK for peaceful protest.this morning, Ms Crory explained why she believes Just Stop Oil may one day be viewed the same way many people now view the suffragettes.
“I mean, some of the narrative around at the time was simply that they were relying on a false premise that women were intelligent and responsible enough to vote and when that view changed, so did the view that they shouldn’t be allowed the right to vote. “As usual when it comes to dealing with Just Stop Oil people, I'm just struck really mostly by their modesty und their very modest claims that, ‘Hey, we're just modern suffragettes,’” he said.
“Just Stop Oil’s aim, on the other hand, rather than liberating half of the population seems to be to immiserate all of the population – to make everybody's life more difficult.” He admitted, however, that the sentences handed down to the protesters in the UK were “probably a bit harsh”.
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