Ah guess that adds up then. But who are these people they find to do the cringe stuff? Actual unironic radlibs?

I've made this point in a previous discussion so will just copy and paste it here, but yeah it does get blurry.

I don't really buy the narrative about Aileen Getty being some sort of oil industry puppet master using JSO and similar to do it's bidding. She hasn't actually given that much money in the grand scheme of things and her history of environmentalism seems to come more from a place of liberal guilt about her oil money inheritance than anything. She's just your standard fail daughter who goes into art and 'radical' politics (for her family maybe).

Don't get me wrong though, I'm sure her ingrained class interests and sensibilities are why she gives to awareness raising and government lobbying groups rather than say the legal defence funds of more militant eco activists.

I'm still far more deeply suspect of a lot of the other XR leadership/funders and the spooks, technocrats, and money managers that orbit it.

Even then, never assign malice to something easily explainable by incompetence. It's pretty easy to imagine how a 3rd generation Getty heir could out of touch enough to think they're doing good with this stuff.