• bacon_pdp@lemmy.world
      331·
      3 days ago

      Peaceful protests work best when non-peaceful resistance exists.

      MLK needed Malcom X and a handful of people willing to sacrifice their lives.

      No social change in history occurred without bloodshed. Morally it is wrong to kill in all cases except self-defense. And people who feel their lives/rights are in danger will act in “self-defense”

      • gwilikers@lemmy.ml
        25·
        3 days ago

        Absolutely.

        Northern Irish Civil Rights movement had the IRA. Women’s Suffrage had the Suffregetes

        All of these movements allowed the peaceful side to present the same terms:

        ‘You deal with me or you deal with the other guy.’

      • SabinStargem@lemmy.todayEnglish
        9·
        3 days ago

        RFK wants to send me to a wellness farm. Also, the black dude down the street, just because.

        I think the choice to conflict has been made for me, and I should get ready to fight. That means training, and joining up with whoever else who wants to die on their home’s soil. I am not going to El Salvador.

    • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      3 days ago

      I’m not saying that at all, I’m just trying to say don’t discourage people from doing it again or more often

    • WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca
      75·
      2 days ago

      Those protests did nothing but reinforce the alt-right’s understanding of how weak the opposition is.

      The No Kings “protests” were easily ignored and inconvenienced nobody. Would have been weak for even GWB-era opposition.

      You’re doing nothing. And everyone’s watching you.

      Save your:

      it’s not that easy

      what do you expect me to do

      it would be a huge personal risk

      I might lose my shitty job that I hate

      keyboard warrior!

      I’m not going to do _____ for my country despite my country loudly insisting for decades that doing _____ is its entire personality