• Rooskie91@discuss.online
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    17 days ago

    Don’t you know? Ghandi, MLK, the Molly Meguires… They all won they’re rights by inconveniencing regular people! They definitely never engaged with people that have the actual power to change things.

    • Schmoo@slrpnk.net
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      17 days ago

      All of those people did things that if you saw them today you would be saying the same things about them that you’re saying about protestors now.

      MLK in particular organized a lot of traffic-blocking protests.

    • LePoisson@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      Well, let’s see, for one you can engage with people in power through inconveniencing “regular people.” For two, those three absolutely led movements that contained times of “inconveniencing regular people.”

      Acting like they didn’t actively disrupt the status quo and lives of folks going about their regular business is very dismissive and honestly ignorant.

    • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldOP
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      17 days ago

      Three figures which exist to whitewash oppressed people freeing themselves using violence.

      After mass murdering and colonizing people, the Brits saw Ghandi. He was so brave and peaceful with his hunger strike that the Brits spontaneously found their humanity and stopped colonizing. The end.