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What history glazes over is how much training civil rights activists had. It feels somehow purer and more righteous maybe, when it fact the reason it worked is because it was extremely organized. Rosa Parks didn't just randomly decide she wasn't leaving her seat that day.
What history glazes over is how much training civil rights activists had. It feels somehow purer and more righteous maybe, when it fact the reason it worked is because it was extremely organized. Rosa Parks didn't just randomly decide she wasn't leaving her seat that day.
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There's this bizarre assertion in the mind of the anti-activist that if it's not spontaneous then it's not valid,doesn't count, etc. The only explanation I can come up with for this is that rule would make activism far less effective. It's like they're saying, "No fair! You planned ahead!"
There's this bizarre assertion in the mind of the anti-activist that if it's not spontaneous then it's not valid,doesn't count, etc. The only explanation I can come up with for this is that rule would make activism far less effective. It's like they're saying, "No fair! You planned ahead!"
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It's definitely enlightening as an adult learning the truth of so many "facts" we were taught as kids.
There was a whole bit in that episode where the Doctor & co meet up with the folks planning the whole thing.
That would affinity exactly what Krasko wanted.
Like, it was a *movement*. Montgomery was one action; there were others. The entire civil rights movement did not depend on one act of protest.
But it's not as if the show hasn't gone into how altering the past can negatively affect the future.
And people would have absolutely been offended if they just went, "Yeah, this isn't that big a deal."
Same school where I was told that the Soviet Union had been bad because they decided what you would do for a living in school & make you do it.
Propaganda!