M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 day ago
YSK, This is blatant propaganda
100% agreed, this line of arguing is how they’re trying to keep us docile.
This book changed my opinion on non-violent resistance movements a few years ago. Highly recommended.
How Non-Violence Protects the State (Peter Gelderloos)
Ebook: theanarchistlibrary.org/…/peter-gelderloos-how-no…
Audiobook: youtu.be/CSo1PGWojxE
What do you mean ! Women got the right to vote by asking nicely, so did workers when they got the 40h work week. Same for black people and civil rights, all was achieved by gently kissing the ruling class boots.
And now in June, we celebrate the queer community’s liberation, which totally happened by walking up to a politician and asking “hey can we please not get assaulted and thrown into prison or a mental ward for existing? 🥺”, to which the politician responded “oh, I’ve spent my entire life thinking you guys were perverted mentally ill sinners that should be drawn and quartered, but sure! ☺️”
bingo.
Winner winner chicken dinner!
annie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
by a state broadcasting org published by the state that held onto its colonial possessions until it was literally untenable without violence.
Nelson Mandela: “Choose peace rather than confrontation, except in cases where we cannot move forward. Then, if the only alternative is violence, we will use violence.” (I feel like a boomer posting azquotes but people are going to keep erasing recorded history so I might as well try)
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Also to note, that potential violence is still violence. “peaceful” protests with over 3.5% of the total people generally do as well on the implied potential violence. Movements that will never go hot have no power.