A little bit of an op, a little bit of sincere people, who really want to change things, but since they are a product of their environment, they are afraid of anything remotely violent or confrontational, and have been brought up to believe that violence is bad, debate is king and change is achieved through peaceful protests and voting. I think there should be plenty of people that one can potentially radicalize there.
I think it should be noted, that many groups of XR are locally organized and may have their own politics ranging from lib-light to actual anti-capitalist/communists. I've definitely seen local XR accounts tweeting stuff like "capitalism is the root of our environmental catastrophy and there will be no solution without abolishing it", which is at least at a superficial level better than the pure lib approach.
A little bit of an op, a little bit of sincere people, who really want to change things, but since they are a product of their environment, they are afraid of anything remotely violent or confrontational, and have been brought up to believe that violence is bad, debate is king and change is achieved through peaceful protests and voting. I think there should be plenty of people that one can potentially radicalize there.
I think it should be noted, that many groups of XR are locally organized and may have their own politics ranging from lib-light to actual anti-capitalist/communists. I've definitely seen local XR accounts tweeting stuff like "capitalism is the root of our environmental catastrophy and there will be no solution without abolishing it", which is at least at a superficial level better than the pure lib approach.