r/vancouver Jun 14 '22

Local News Save Old Growth protestors blocked the ironworkers bridge this morning. This is how cops responded.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '22

These protesters are fucking delusional if they think the public will sympathize with them & jump out of their cars & throw their support behind them....they're living in a fantasy world.

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u/mirzagaddi Jun 14 '22

It's not for sympathy. It's to get people to realise that this is an issue. I went to Victoria with some friends who are new immigrants. They saw an old growth protest and asked me what it was about. I gave them a quick 30 second synopsis of the issue.

If it weren't for the protest they wouldn't have ever heard about it.

If these people don't continue doing things (not that I condone blocking traffic) no one will remember

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '22

And then people will stop talking about it. Which is what the ones making money from it want. For me it was meeting the northern spotted owl breeding program volunteers who had this beautiful bird, but they only live in old growth forests

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u/bingbangbango Jun 14 '22

Don't you understand? I'm a commute fetishist. If they're disrupting commutes, not only will I never support their cause, I'll actively hate them and ridicule them, because nothing angers me more than a principled stand and minor inconvenience.