Mahbe this is fair, maybe it isn’t, but the general impression most people have of them and groups like them is that it’s mostly quite comfortable, upper middle class people causing pointless disruption in ways that primarily impact the ordinary working Joe.

I’m almost certain this was extinction rebellion rather than just stop oil, but think of the protests to block motorways in England or disrupt train travel.

What did that achieve? Made some people late for work. Is that radical or effective? No, and it’s annoying.

Or when you think of just stop oil specifically, you might think of someone throwing soup on a painting or orange powder on a snooker table.

What did that achieve? Again, annoyance for your ordinary working stiff who might have saved up quite a bit of money to travel to a fancy museum or bought a ticket to a snooker game.

Is that radical or effective? No, and it’s annoying.

The style of protest is largely ineffective, isn’t radical, and mostly just annoys the working class.

Maybe if they started committing some genuinely radical acts, like executing oil executives for example, it might be different.

Right now it just looks to most ordinary people like pointless annoyance by a bunch of wankers.

Edit: Just to be clear, and I hope this doesn’t break any rules, I’m pro executing oil executives and anti pointless shit like holding up tube stations or vandalising art