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> Non violent, persistent, civil disobedience has worked in modern history. Against the British empire in places that Britain didn't actually make much money a
by nickik 6y ago
> Non violent, persistent, civil disobedience has worked in modern history.
Against the British empire in places that Britain didn't actually make much money anymore.
- runawaybottle 6y agoIn America with Civil Rights also.
- twoheadedboy 6y agoBecause America is a Democracy. Non violent protests changed people's minds and those people ultimately decide the laws. Won't work in China. China is totalitarian. The government gets what it wants regardless of public opinion. And it will squash any opinion it doesn't like before it spreads.
- mythrwy 6y agoThat worked because the federal government had guns and Civil Rights had widespread support in much of the rest of the country. History is probably full of deaths of nonviolent (and violent) resisters.