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Women's suffrage was relatively nonviolent.
by t-3 4mo ago
Women's suffrage was relatively nonviolent.
- trollbridge 4mo agoAs was the civil rights era. The people who chose to be violent made it take longer, actually.
- t-3 4mo agoI don't think that's really accurate. Without the perceived threat from the militant factions, the peaceful protesters wouldn't necessarily have had political backing and support. Peaceful movements had been suppressed until that point, after all.
- trollbridge 4mo agoI think it is. Change happened because a majority of reasonable people wanted it to change. Terrorist attacks, kidnappings, etc made that change take longer. What made MLK Jr so unique was that he carried a message of peace, not a message of war. The militant factions never had any real power and would have never been close to powerful enough to overthrow the government, and if they’d been more successful, would have swayed the masses’ opinions in the wrong direction.