that is exactly what democracy is talking to people that despise you and that you despise. because the next step is just violence and killing some people.
i'm not justifying anything i'm saying if your movement gets associated with crazy people nobody will take it seriously. im not talking about people being reactionary i'm talking about if you want environmental activism taken seriously you better disassociate from the crazy people like differentiate yourself make that very clear your not them or your movement is fucking dead. has nothing to do with what you find stupid. its about not repelling people if you want to get shit done.
because in the times that actually happened there was no other way. that's kind of the whole reason democracy exists that you don't do it that way. Civility has nothing to do with being polite it has to do with controlling your emotions and to not act like children and to use your words like a grown ass person. because saying uprisings and unrest and revolution is easy until your in it.
are you really asking why crazy people making headlines and becoming the face of a movent makes people not take that movement seriously? because that is exactly how you kill a movement. seems to me your just playing dumb.
nobody is going to take you seriously if you throw food at the Mona Lisa. it makes you look ridicules and there in almost guaranteeing nothing will get done. Civility just means don't act like a crazy person nobody is going to listen to a crazy person.
just sad that the people protesting are fucking crazy and then make climate change look like a fucking joke. these people are the perfect example of the worst kind of people fighting for your cause and in doing so make the cause look stupid or not as serious. one would almost think these people are funded by big oil companies to make climate change get a bad image or associate it with crazy people.
problems never just solve themselves like that. and definitely big ones like the climate.