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The remarkably sad part is the violence does nothing but legitimize the attacked parties hate. Hate begets hate.
by donatj 10y ago
The remarkably sad part is the violence does nothing but legitimize the attacked parties hate. Hate begets hate.
- BEEdwards 10y agoViolence totally legitimized the fascists and Nazis... OH wait, no it's the opposite, the only way to defeat them is on their own terms. You keep on appeasing them hoping it will work this time though.
- donatj 10y agoIt legitimizes their position in their minds. You punch someone, you are certainly not encouraging them to not hate you. You are not making your point that you are something not deserving of hate. If anything you are proving it and cauterizing their hatred for you in the process. It achieves nothing positive save very brief catharsis.
- lightbyte 10y agoViolence has historically been the only way for racial change to occur.
- Dirlewanger 10y agoBecause Martin Luther King Jr. was such a large proponent of violence...
- donatj 10y agoAnd Gandhi
- vkou 10y agoMartin Luther King would not have gotten anywhere if it weren't for people like Malcolm X (Who scared the hell out of white America.) When you've got Black Panthers on the streets with assault weapons, negotiating with (Instead of ignoring) a pacifist Baptist minister suddenly starts to sound like a way better idea. Ghandi won because the empire was, quite literally, too broke to hold on to its colonies. An Indian nationalist movement would not have gotten anywhere before the World Wars bankrupted England. Mind you, today, Martin Luther King's boycotts and marches are called economic terrorism.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 10y agoTo say a thing like this betrays the lack of just about any knowledge of the historical record.