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Extinction Rebellion’s shameful cultural appropriation

14 July 2020

3:30 PM

14 July 2020

3:30 PM

Extinction Rebellion are boasting about their latest little piece of absurdist street theatre, a protest outside Energy Minister Angus Taylor’s electorate office in Goulburn:

Yes, that’s right. Boasting. Don’t they know any better?

Extinction Rebellion should be hanging their heads in shame for their blatant cultural appropriation of the rites of Sufi dancers, also known as whirling dervishes:

As St Greta of the Skolstrejk för Klimatet might say, how dare you.

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