• conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    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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      7 months ago

      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.

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          7 months ago

          Violence is never appropriate unless in self defense. Bystanders don’t deserve to have their lives flipped over in the name of visibility.