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Squall28 posted...

MLK? Ghandi? You know...some of the greatest leaders we've ever had?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_resistance

You do realize that King believed that understood that violence was part of the process as well? Spend some time reading his writings, his letters, his speeches. The people in power want you to believe that you can get a boot off of your neck by asking nicely, because when you ask nicely they can ignore you. That's why they teach you shit like "MLK and Ghandi were peaceful" It doesn't fucking work that way and never has.

There were plenty of militant groups that worked with King's movement and protected the activists. Look up the Deacons for Defense and Justice. They were the ones who stopped the Jonesboro Klan from burning anymore crosses. How? They had black servants put leaflets in the homes of their white employers stating that they would kill anyone who burned a cross. The cross burnings stopped. They and groups like them were the ones who enforced locally the achievements that King accomplished nationally. Or did you really believe that once things we desegregated and jim crow laws overturned that the struggle was over and the locals just went along with it? It wasn't over and the local whites and their cop enforcers didn't go along with it. Groups like the Deacons for Defense made sure they did.

Had the labor movement been led by people with your mindset (cowards) we'd all still be working 80 hours a week with children as our co-workers in wildly unsafe conditions with no OSHA or workmen's comp.

What you want is peace and civility so you can ignore it because you aren't part of the group being targeted by the cops. Why should people sit by and peacefully accept extrajudicial executions of their family, friends, and fellow citizens. So you won't be inconvienced? Why should they be forced to take beatings from the cops to appease your appeal for peaceful change? Why should they take being gassed without fighting back so you can smugly claim they took the moral high ground, from the safety of your computer, even though it accomplished nothing.

EDIT: Your statement that people sided with MLK because the violence was so one-sided is fucking ridiculous and has no basis in history. When he was murdered his approval rating amongst the public was 75% negative. He was wilded hated by the overwhelming majority of people in this country. STOP FUCKING TALKING ABOUT SHIT YOU DON'T KNOW OR UNDERSTAND.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-martin-luther-king-had-75-percent-disapproval-rating-year-he-died-180968664/
Read this and please for the love of god shut the fuck up.

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