Tofu GolemThe suffragettes carried out a bombing and arson campaign as part of their effort to give women the vote. Mansions burned. Human beings died.
The unions gave and received a lot of violence to bring us the 40-hour work week and overtime.
And yet, when BLM (who were only asking that the government stop murdering citizens for trivial reasons) caused far less violence and far less property damage, we were all told that this "undermined their own cause."
This appears to be part of a narrative that has been going on since the Civil Rights movement.
Do you think women should give the right to vote back because they did more violence and more property damage than BLM? If not, then you are applying that "undermine your own cause" thing very selectively, and I think we all know why.
Let's test how much you really believe in this "undermining your own cause" thing.
The BLM protesters were protesting murder.
If you buy into the "undermine your own cause" narrative, then ask yourself this: how much property damage can anti-murder protesters do before murder stops being a bad thing?
I hope you understand that the justness of a cause has NOTHING to do with how much violence or property damage is done during a protest. They are completely unrelated, and to be honest, protests that are not disruptive can be ignored by those in power.
Whenever protests happen, the police will send agents provocateurs to do vandalism, specifically so the media can then point at the vandalism and say "See? Their cause is unjust because they broke that window!"
This tactic is only successful because people buy into the "undermine your own cause" narrative. If people understood that the justness of a cause is unrelated to how much violence or damage happens, then those tactics would not work.
Stop.
Please stop telling people that violence and/or vandalism "undermines the cause" of a protest. This is incredibly destructive and only serves the interests of oppressors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette_bombing_and_arson_campaign
