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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If they stay, they will be criminally targeted or have to work under death threats. These people do not work for money, they work to save lives but at some point when the people they are saving just choose to attack them, I completely understand the 'go fuck yourselves' response.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world -5 points 6 days ago

If they stay, they will be criminally targeted or have to work under death threats

  1. Bullshit

  2. Even if true, if you think that's a valid reason. You probably need to read about why reconstructionism failed after the civil war.

The political terrorism was effective. While Republican gubernatorial candidate Rufus Bullock carried the state in April 1868 elections, by November Democratic presidential candidate Horatio Seymour was in the lead. In some counties the contrast was incredible. In John Reed’s Oglethorpe County, 1,144 people had voted Republican in April, while only 116 dared to vote Republican in November when Reed’s armed Klansmen surrounded the polls. In Columbia County armed Klansmen not only intimidated voters but even cowed federal soldiers sent to guard the polling place. Not surprisingly, while 1,222 votes had been cast in Columbia County for Republican governor Rufus Bullock in April, only one vote was cast for Republican presidential candidate Ulysses Grant in November 1868. Similar political terrorism and control of the polling places help account for Georgia’s quick “redemption” and return to conservative white Democratic control by late 1871.

https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/ku-klux-klan-in-the-reconstruction-era/

If politicians/feds resign due to threats, then voters are the ones that get threatened next.

Giving up doesn't fix anything, it just lets them win the battle and move on to the next to win the war.

This ain't a fucking game and it ain't gonna be comfortable.

Giving up doesn't fucking work, and it never will.