• Stern
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    168 months ago

    Me looking at the number of times nonviolence worked: Okay so MLK, Gandhi, and… uhh

    Me looking at times violence worked: Opens “History of the World” to page 1, 10,000 BCE Oh this is going to take a while isn’t it.

    • @Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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      308 months ago

      You could argue that MLK didn’t really work. And Gandhi’s contemporaries weren’t that peaceful, but quite influential. That narrative just isn’t that great for the people in power.

      • Prehensile_cloaca
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        58 months ago

        Yeah MLK is cherry picked as hell. We learn about “civil disobedience,” but gloss over the White Moderate and his perspectives on Capitalism as a terminal strategy.

      • Stern
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        58 months ago

        Could certainly put forth that folks had a choice between Malcolm X (or others, he’s just the first to spring to mind.) or MLK and decided on discretion, but really, I’m just meme’ing so lets not think on it too hard.