Armed activists blocked Dallas workers from cleaning a homeless camp. That’s unacceptable
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Last week, a group of about 40 activists used their bodies and cars to block city officials from cleaning the site of a homeless encampment under Interstate...

"This is not how we do things in this country."

Uhh, clearly it is. Did you not see the part where this happened in this country?

  • Commander_Data [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I wonder if most people on the left realize the true importance of John Brown and preserving his memory. When he was active in Kansas and especially after the failed raid on the armory at Harper's Ferry, the prevailing public sentiment was that he was a bit of a crazy person. Fredrick Douglass even told him as much. It was only after he was captured and interviewed by the press, as well as the accounts of his incarceration and execution to the press by the governor of Virgina, that Brown's public image was rehabilitated.

    No matter what we do, people are going to call us crazy extremists until they don't.

    • Tormato [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Great point.

      In prison during his death sentence he was practically holding court with all sorts of people. Newspaper articles came out, he wrote prodigious letters and his appearance in court were legendary defenses of his noble cause.

      Most of his closest supporters and newspapers succumbed to the pressure and denounced him as crazy.

      But not Thoreau . Who wrote a beautiful defense of him.

      When the shit hits the fan too many fall for cowardice.