I think in the Civil Rights era, where you have a small minority of the population trying to appeal to the morality of the majority, it was a reasonable tactic. Had they tried to resist they would've been slaughtered. But even then, the nonviolence movement was only possible due to peripheral armed organizing.
But the situation today is that the police are the minority, and the protesters would be the superior force if they organized even a little bit. I don't honestly believe very many of the pigs are ready to die for their cause. But they can act with impunity because virtually no one actually resists.
Yeah the non-violence professed by people like MLK was only effective because there was an underlying understanding that shutting them down would only push people into more militant organizations.
Not only that, but there were plenty of armed people on the sidelines, ready to jump in if anyone messed with the nonviolent demonstrators. You read the stories, and it's like, the nonviolence group of students would come into today, and the local hosts would take turns sitting in the window all night with a loaded rifle, in case any klan or the like wanted to come by and cause trouble. I read This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible and recommend it highly, great book if you are interested.
I think in the Civil Rights era, where you have a small minority of the population trying to appeal to the morality of the majority, it was a reasonable tactic. Had they tried to resist they would've been slaughtered. But even then, the nonviolence movement was only possible due to peripheral armed organizing.
But the situation today is that the police are the minority, and the protesters would be the superior force if they organized even a little bit. I don't honestly believe very many of the pigs are ready to die for their cause. But they can act with impunity because virtually no one actually resists.
Yeah the non-violence professed by people like MLK was only effective because there was an underlying understanding that shutting them down would only push people into more militant organizations.
Not only that, but there were plenty of armed people on the sidelines, ready to jump in if anyone messed with the nonviolent demonstrators. You read the stories, and it's like, the nonviolence group of students would come into today, and the local hosts would take turns sitting in the window all night with a loaded rifle, in case any klan or the like wanted to come by and cause trouble. I read This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible and recommend it highly, great book if you are interested.
Ooh I'm definitely gonna check that out. Thanks for the rec