• snooggums@midwest.social
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    Attention to the problem.

    You can act like it doesn’t work, but the Civil Rights movement had no traction until white people were inconvenienced.

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      There was a lot more to the success of the civil rights movement than simply blocking traffic.

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        1 year ago

        Sit ins, marching in the streets, and other disruptive actions that are comparable were a significant part of it.

        Not being the whole thing doesn’t mean it wasn’t important.

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        There’s this weird idea that the civil rights protestors were met with people clapping and cheering and waving American flags. They were not. Those protests were wildly unpopular in their time. It was only later on, after they succeeded in getting some change, that the attitudes and rhetoric around those protests changed.

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          I’m well aware. I was specifically talking about the modern tactic of sit-ins in the middle of busy intersections and protestors glueing themselves to the tarmac, and so forth.

          I never called into question political protest in general, even though that’s apparently what people are assuming I said.