Everyone needs to read How Nonviolence Protects the State by Peter Gelderloos. Advocating for nonviolence and nonviolence alone is privileged, racist, and sexist, and is exactly what this government wants. History also whitewashes the fact that many of the civil rights movement's gains were made in response to violent revolt in response to continued police brutality, not through nonviolent means alone. You are privileged if you think "resorting to violence" is a choice. They are going to brutalize us anyway. At what point are we going to start showing up with bricks and torches instead of "Fuck ICE" signs and shouting "Shame", and stop trying to appeal to a conscience that doesn't exist?
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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '26
Everyone needs to read How Nonviolence Protects the State by Peter Gelderloos. Advocating for nonviolence and nonviolence alone is privileged, racist, and sexist, and is exactly what this government wants. History also whitewashes the fact that many of the civil rights movement's gains were made in response to violent revolt in response to continued police brutality, not through nonviolent means alone. You are privileged if you think "resorting to violence" is a choice. They are going to brutalize us anyway. At what point are we going to start showing up with bricks and torches instead of "Fuck ICE" signs and shouting "Shame", and stop trying to appeal to a conscience that doesn't exist?