Comment on If what they taught us about checks and balances was a lie maybe what they taught us about civil disobedience was a lie too.

YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Their combination got results. You think they’re ever going to give Malcolm what he demanded? Fuck no. They give it to King and then shoot the both of em for good measure. King made the movement to sympathetic to just start shooting.

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  • WraithGear@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    and that’s cool, just don’t stand in the way of the people who push Malcolm X, so we can have both

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    • julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Thiiis. The insiders need to laud the goals of protesters and the protesters need to ease off on the “complicit” insiders a bit. We are on the same team, and the combination of approaches is more powerful. Disagreeing on methods is fine, you pull, we push, momentum baby.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Except not really

  It is much harder to label a peaceful protester as a terrorist

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  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You weren’t paying attention three months to four years (& 3months) ago.

    Let me remind you of trump holding an upside down Bible while peaceful protestors were getting tear gassed.

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  • M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    ? no it is quite easy to do so.

    They called this a successful strike vs hamas

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