@spencerbeswick Yes, but this narrative of violence became harder and harder to sell the longer they stuck with peaceful civil disobedience. In the end you are striving to change the minds of enough to allow change to happen. Remember women fought for the right to vote and got it when they convinced enough white men with beards to vote for it. Leveraging the political system takes time, courage, alliances and consistently refusing to take the government bait to use violence.

@Robo105 @spencerbeswick Activists have been arguing about this since probably-forever and there isn’t enough convincing evidence to show if either non-violent or violent resistance is “better” overall… probably because, at least to me, asking which one is “better” without any context is asking the wrong question

@medusaskirt @Robo105 @spencerbeswick It’s funny that those who are entirely opposed to violent protests never talk about the White Rose group in Nazi Germany, or non-violent protests in Pinochet’s Chile, or, while referencing Tiananmen as an example of repression, skip over the massacre of peaceful protestors… It’s always MLK and Gandhi, both of whom were murdered…