Opression creates its own resistance
Opression creates its own resistance
Hey, that’s not fair. Oftentimes liberals really do differentiate between the two pictures.
They just decide that violence against the oppressed is ok especially if it preserves the status quo (and the flow of their treats). Violence enacted by the oppressed always needs to be tut-tuted though, for only pacifism is a truly virtuous and acceptable response. Anything else might threaten the status quo (and the flow of their treats).
Nooooo you foiled me! I forgot that resistance to genocide is illegal… 🫠
/s
Legit I encounter this attitude heaps and have difficulty communicating the problem with it. Especially the often invisible but implicit violent threat that precedes any violent resistance and thus causes the violence.
It’s really hard to explain why reasonable people resort to armed resistance and the associated atrocities without lighting up the parts of their brain that get them to go “Are you saying terrorism is good?” and shutting down.
Hard to explain without endorsing sometimes.