We need more Paul Watsons — not “climate influencers,” but raw, ruthless defenders of the Earth. 🌍🦈🔥
Posted by Invictus_Rex__@reddit | whales | View on Reddit | 5 comments
Tired of plastic straws being marketed as “saving the planet” while entire species are wiped out?
Meet Paul f*cking Watson — the man who didn’t beg for change. He rammed it into whaling ships.
Founder of Sea Shepherd, he saw ocean killers and said, “You don’t negotiate with murderers.” While the world held climate summits and patted itself on the back, Watson was chasing down illegal whalers, sabotaging their gear, and broadcasting every bloody detail.
This guy didn’t protest with signs. He dropped propeller-fouling ropes, launched stink bombs, and made poachers run.
Governments hated him. Whalers feared him. Corporations wanted him silenced. But nature? Nature needed him.
He’s been hunted, arrested, exiled—and kept fighting. Because Watson doesn’t believe in half-measures. He believes in this:
“If the ocean dies, we die. So screw your laws, I’ll save what I can.”
Revliledpembroke@reddit
By definition, it's not murder. You can argue how wrong it is all you want, but it literally is not murder by any legal definition.
Don't use such an obviously false statement like this. You'll either get sued for defamation (or slander or whatever) or people will refuse to listen to you because they believe you're being hysterical, no matter how much they might otherwise agree with you - on some level, at least.
Like the "Meat is Murder" Vegan activists, who nobody gives a rat's ass about.
Come at it from the "Whales are beautiful creatures who we should all respect and admire, and they should still be largely protected after hundreds of years of over-hunting and the near-extinction of many species" angle, and you will win over waaaaaaaaaaaaay more people than "ANYONE WHO KILLS A WHALE IS A MURDERER!"
The former makes a clear and presented case with supporting evidence to back your argument.
The latter is just hysterical - and just like you probably won't listen to the street preacher screaming about THE END OF THE WORLD IS NIGH!, nobody will listen to you being hysterical either.
It's why many protests aren't working. Dramatic and hysterical people desperate to make a show about making a point encroach on the daily lives the average individual, turning the average person against the cause of the protestors. Like, sure, it's great that you can... glue yourself to the road, but people have to get to work, so go do that on your own time and stop screwing over everyone else.
ragtagradio@reddit
You didn’t write this. Try it again with your own words and get back to us
brydeswhale@reddit
The racist guy who sic’d his followers on a teenaged subsistence hunter?
That’s what we need more of?
Naw. We need more Greta Thunbergs.
nobbiez@reddit
Thank you for saying this. I love whales more than anything, but it is fact that Paul Watson is an unapologetic racist bully: https://hakaimagazine.com/features/teen-whaler-age-cyberbullies/
dontknow16775@reddit
So true