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I don't believe peaceful protests have been effective since the civil rights era.
I can't legally justify violence.
What's the third option?
They've put a lot of effort into convincing us that it's was only peaceful protests that were effective in the civil rights era. IDK if they were really peaceful but at the time they were certainly called violent.
And the government made sure to make white people genuinely afraid of violence.
They worked because the Black Panthers were standing by with rifles, making it pretty clear what the next step would be if the peaceful protests were ignored as they are today. Today's protests are all bark with no teeth to back to up in case barking doesn't do the trick.
...and barking isn't doing the trick.
You can personally perpetuate violence against our oppressors.
Just don't call on others to do so first.
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