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I get there was a bit of cheek about it, just on the scale of civil disobedience in the country I didn't think "living in a big mansion in the richest neighborh

• gattilorenz 5y ago
  You can dismiss almost anything with that. "I didn't think sitting down on the bus would register much of a blip." The fact that we know about it means that it did register.
  • throwawaylinux 5y ago
    That's a non sequitur. I know about lots of things that were not civil disobedience.
    • vidarh 5y ago
      But you don't know about many specific random people with no connection to you taking a jog or sitting down on a bus because it made enough of an impact on other people that they told you about it
• frereubu 5y ago
  Clearly he was in a more privileged position than a random person from a black township, who would have been swiftly packed into the back of a Land Rover and dealt with extremely harshly. Even people with public prominence weren't exempt, as the case of Steve Biko shows. But Tutu was using the little power he had - as an official representative of the church - to challenge the apartheid laws in an obvious way. There were much easier routes he could have taken - challenging the laws with words, but living somewhere that wouldn't provoke the police. I don't know you, but I get the feeling you don't know quite how vicious the apartheid regime was, and the kind of physical risk that this entailed. Because no-one had done it before, he didn't really know what kind of response he was going to get. "Cheek" doesn't really cover it.
• TheGigaChad 5y ago