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Civil disobedience != violence. Illegal action is sometimes justified. Violence never is.
by senderista 6y ago
Civil disobedience != violence. Illegal action is sometimes justified. Violence never is.
- krapp 6y agoI'm sorry, but that rings hollow in a country with the Second Amendment and a gun culture that likes to wax poetic about watering the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants, or preach that school shootings are simply the price we pay for a free state. You cannot tell a group of people that violence must be beneath them when they're facing a system that employs violence against them with impunity and often bends over backwards to justify it, in a culture which holds violence as one of the foundations of liberty itself. That would be suicidal. Violence should be a last resort, but it can't ever be off the table, not in the US.
- latortuga 6y agoThis is just false though. Sometimes violence is all you have left. Without violence, we wouldn't be a country. Without violence a black person would still be worth 3/5 of a white person. History shows us that violence is sometimes necessary. We arm police specifically because violence is sometimes required.
- anewdirection 6y agoViolence was not the solution for any of the problems you mention, but the cause of a few. Maybe re-examine your rationale.