Alex WildCampuses aren't being rocked by protests.
They're being rocked by politicized administrators ordering students beaten and jailed to satisfy the political elite.
Let's be clear who is causing the violence.
Janis@alexwild As an organizer of a 100K-attendee Women's March: we arranged with the city police before we protested. They knew we would be there, we knew they would be there, we ordered porta-potties and garbage cans and we left the place spotless.
Biggest global march fucking ever. No police incidents to speak of.
Everyone conscious tenses up when there's unexpected shit going down. Everyone.
The kids aren't driving the violence, but they aren't using proven methods to mitigate it, either.
enoch_exe_inc@enoch_exe_inc @alexwild Policing will never, ever go away, no matter where you go, there will be an establishment that is bumbling along at a losing attempt to suppress violence with violence.
If you want to protest violence, you do everything in your power to not instigate more of it, no matter who it's coming from. And you prove it by publishing believable attempts at violence mitigation, repeatedly. The problem is that violence & fear-mongering is what gets attention. Receipts are boring.
@janisf @enoch_exe_inc @alexwild All politics features violence of some kind. Politics, after all, is the distribution of power, and power is enforced with violence. So, protests against violence are not necessarily against violent acts in and of themselves, but rather against the legitimacy of that violence.
@janisf @enoch_exe_inc @alexwild Also, those who favour ‘peaceful’ or ‘nonviolent’ protest must know, at least subconsciously, that pacifism is an absurdly privileged position to take up. You can only protest as peacefully as the law allows you to, and when all peaceful means have been exhausted, violence is inevitable.
Mordantivore@enoch_exe_inc @janisf @alexwild they truly don't.
They are often culturally Christian and believe in the superior morality of suffering in the supposed name of struggle and redemption. They believe that nonviolence is always morally superior and will win out because it's blessed by God.
They don't acknowledge this and they absolutely do not acknowledge that nonviolence is a classicist position that only the most comfortable will espouse.
They firmly and genuinely believe that if enough people suffer in the right way then the system can be made to bend under guilt and that any actions to resist a violent system that threaten it undermine any potential victories, that a violent revolution is inherently damned. It's such a nonsensical position they take.
@Mordantivore @enoch_exe_inc @alexwild First, I have to be honest, I don't believe people who say, "they believe..." I even have trouble fully accepting it when people say, "I believe..." as that can be a ruse, change, or be mindlessly accepted propaganda.
I believe in MLK's, Ghandi's, and women's (mostly) non-violence. I also believe most people are deeply moved by verifiable images and effectively-told stories of violence, so deeply that beliefs shift.
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Who told you it was OK to bring my mother into this? 😛
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Christian Nationalism scares the shit out of me. it should do that to everyone.