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> ... your doing so demonstrates an unwillingness on your part to argue in good faith. You argued: A: Unfortunately, in your world, the racists and white
by bb88 6y ago
> ... your doing so demonstrates an unwillingness on your part to argue in good faith.
You argued:
A: Unfortunately, in your world, the racists and white
supremacists take over
That presupposes this:
B: In a democracy a majority of the people have to agree
that white supremacy should be the dominant principle for
governmental rule.
I was pointing out that in order for A to happen, B must happen as well -- but in a rhetorical way to deeply undermine your argument. I assure you, it was completely in good faith. You probably just didn't like the result of it.
> No they weren't. They were accomplished with speech and consequence, often long, violent, ugly protests and frequently civil unrest.
Rosa Parks didn't throw a brick through a window. She refused to sit in the back of the bus. That started a boycott of the bus system, and it worked without bloodshed.
Sure blood was spilled in the civil rights marches but not because the people marching wanted it to be.
- non-entity 6y agoFrom what I've read just today on HN, many would likely argue that this was not a peaceful protest because perhaps it inconvenienced others on the bus. Should've just shut up and followed orders.
- bb88 6y agoMight as well just say that Gandhi was a thug because he inconvenienced British rule of India through his non-violent tactics.
- watwut 6y agoRosa Parks sitting in was not act of activism. Pretty much everything before and after in her life was. I Rosa Parks was radical whole her life. She was not proponent of super peaceful activism, she at the moment thought fighting would he strategically bad idea. Had she been meek lady, there would be no protests. She did lived at violent place at the time, did dealt with lynchings, beatings and legal protests up to that point. She did not had philosophy of peaceful activism above all. While she was not violent, she was not proponent of peaceful above all protesting. That was Kings philosophy and even he was up to breaking law.