• paperemail@links.rocks
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    1 month ago

    It’s also very Liberal propaganda.

    Martin Luther King Jr. protested and he won so peaceful protest works!

    While of course barely mentioning the Black Panthers and how MLK was suddenly a reasonable alternative to their violent resistance.

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      1 month ago

      Exactly this. The “carrot and stick” strategy doesn’t work without the stick. Every time a nonviolent movement achieves something, it’s because they were seen as the preferable alternative to a more militant contemporary.

    • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      The only reason MLK didn’t do more was because what they were already doing was illegal, and anything more could get them jail time. And this is still what they thought of him and his “peaceful” protests: