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[–] TimeTravel_0@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I find the idea of peaceful protest kinda comical. Isnt the whole point of protest to threatan polititans into doing what you want? I feel like the most peaceful a protest can be while still being effective is warning them that if they dont captiulate you will come back tomarrow and burn their house down.

I feel like the reason lib protests rarely work is they are usually too chicken shit to actually back up the implied threat of violence, so polititians face no consiquences from ignoring them.

[–] Spongebobsquarejuche@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But what if somebody gets hurt?

[–] TimeTravel_0@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The chance of someone getting hurt by protest is not as bad as the certianty of someone getting hurt by what is being protested. Especially when you are protesting genocide.

[–] Spongebobsquarejuche@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ive had this conversation with libs and they were adamant that someone in an ambulance not getting to the hospital fast enough would turn everyone off from your cause. Just the inconvenience was too much.

Do you think people get rights by not inconveniencing the system?

[–] TimeTravel_0@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

You know the typical lib might actually believe that given the whitewashed history of the civil rights movement. The extent of their knowledge is likely somthing along the lines of "MLK protested peacefully only causing a minor inconviniece and then LBJ signed the civil rights act out of the goodness of his heart". I know thats probably the impression I would have if I stuck with what whatever I remember from 5th grade social studies in the american education system.

[–] NovaPrime@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Neolibs love to prop up MLK, Mandela, and Ghandi for the success of their nonviolent campaigns, but always conveniently leave out Black Panthers, Malcom X, Necklacing, and the Indian revolutionaries who, either through more militant or violent means, forced their oppressors hand in tandem with their more "peaceful" contemporaries.

A relevant quote from Malcolm X I've always liked: "At one time the whites in the United States called [King] a racialist, and extremist, and a Communist. Then the Black Muslims came along and the whites thanked the Lord for Martin Luther King."