May 29, 2019 - Slightly Offensive - Elijah Schaffer
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What was he getting ready to give him the papers for?
I think they're getting a survey.
Okay, thank you very much.
Awesome.
Thank you.
Awesome.
Have a good day, man.
No homo.
A lot of people on the right think that it's a left-wing, it's just left-wingers.
What do you think about that?
unidentified
Well, people say that it's an elitist issue or that only white people that have nothing to do go to these events, but I can tell you as a person of color, you know what I mean?
That my personal views on everything else is completely isolated from the fact that we're all gonna die if we don't have action.
I'm like, I'm not alt-right or anything like that.
unidentified
I'm going to give you a sense.
Everybody knows that there's a climate crisis.
I mean, but what's the solution?
Elon Musk, he says, let's go to Mars, abandon Earth.
Some people say let's kill everybody.
Let's build a wall at the border because as the planet gets hotter, people are going to want to escape violence and plagues and death and famine and so come to the U.S.
So just build a wall, send people to camps, kill people, and that's a way to deal with the climate capacity.
I think that morally that's kind of f ⁇ ed up and so is escaping the planet.
Don't we have an obligation to each other and to the one that created us to actually work this out?
We're striking out here for two reasons.
One, we want to create awareness because the educational system in America isn't necessarily the best, which is why we have one of our demands, which is compulsory education on the climate crisis, starting from K through 8, because that's when we're most impressionable, right?
All right, so right to my left is the party for socialism and liberation, which is an ironic sort of faction that comes out to a lot of these protests.
And what they stand for sometimes is really not a lot about liberation.
We were here a little while ago, maybe about a month or two ago, I'm not sure.
And there were some issues with them attacking people and like pushing each other.
And there was a lot of fights.
And it doesn't seem very liberating to me.
But anyways, if it's on the shirt, it must be true.
I mean, I'm a Democrat because it's on my t-shirt.
Can I ask you a question?
So sometimes at these marches, and this goes for both sides, there's a problem with like other groups attaching themselves to the march.
Like, you know, we have like the socialism liberation and different groups.
What do you feel about other groups using your platform to push their agenda?
unidentified
So right now, the only groups we've given an official platform to, which is the ones that you will see speaking, are people that like, you know, are apolitical.
And so we understand that the socialist movement as well as other organizations want to attach themselves on.
And what we say to that is, no, like they're not, they're not representing the needs or the demands of the youth climate strikers.
We're not against them, but we're not for them.
Without debate, without criticism, no administration and no country can survive.
And no Republic can succeed or survive.
And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment.
The only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution.
So what we're kind of getting is that this idea of climate change has been heavily polarized into a left versus right issue.
But a lot of people here are trying to bring the point across that it really isn't.
It's just a scientific issue.
And I mean, you have to take yourself out of the partisan mindset for just a second and ask yourself, before you take a side on climate change, why do you believe the way you believe?
Is it because you fall on the left?
Is it because you fall on the right?
Or have you really investigated the sources?
Now, the debate is inconclusive at the moment, I believe, from what I've understood.
But the climate's always changing.
Whether or not changing our laws in the U.S. is going to help anything, that's the real question.
I don't know, but I don't think it's going to help.
