• @[email protected]
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    28 days ago

    I don’t believe peaceful protests have been effective since the civil rights era.

    I can’t legally justify violence.

    What’s the third option?

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      7 days ago

      You can personally perpetuate violence against our oppressors.

      Just don’t call on others to do so first.

      Other options:

      1. Boycott
      2. Sabotage
      3. Organize coalitions to take concerted action
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      37 days ago

      They’ve put a lot of effort into convincing us that it’s was only peaceful protests that were effective in the civil rights era. IDK if they were really peaceful but at the time they were certainly called violent.

      And the government made sure to make white people genuinely afraid of violence.

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        26 days ago

        IDK if they were really peaceful but at the time they were certainly called violent.

        They worked because the Black Panthers were standing by with rifles, making it pretty clear what the next step would be if the peaceful protests were ignored as they are today. Today’s protests are all bark with no teeth to back to up in case barking doesn’t do the trick.

        …and barking isn’t doing the trick.