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> We are slowly squeezing a significant segment of the population out of public debate, and they are powerless to stop it. Is it surprising that they are furiou
by throw0101a 6y ago
> We are slowly squeezing a significant segment of the population out of public debate, and they are powerless to stop it. Is it surprising that they are furious about it, and explode in unpredictable ways? Wouldn't you do the same?
What did African-Americans do when they were marginalized for a century until the Civil Rights era of the 1960s? (And still are in many ways.)
The folks you are referring to can say whatever they want: they have Fox, OANN, and Newsmax. They can set up phpBB to have online discussions. Mastodon and IRC are open source and distributed. They can rent a hall and have meetings and sign up as candidates for various political offices and put forward their platforms on Wordpress-powered sites.
They can say whatever they want on myriad of platforms. But that doesn't mean anyone else has to listen.
- handedness 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Slave_rebellions_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Slave_rebellions_in_t...
- throw0101a 6y agoHow did each of those work out for the slaves?
- handedness 6y agoWell, for some of them, pretty darned well. A lot better than for their slaveowners, at least. Anyway, I'm not sure what your point is. Mine was that a lot happened before the 1960s, and much of it wasn't pretty.
- throw0101a 6y agoActually my statement (first sentence) was about the century before the 1960s, i.e., after the US Civil War when the slaves were already 'free'.
- quadrangle 6y agoThe "Civil War" really should just be renamed the "Slavery War"
- cma 6y agoWith any of those alternatives they won't be able to get notifications on mobile.