I'll be blunt: the Nazis knew better than to burn the Louvre. They knew destroying prized property would get more people into the streets of Paris than kidnapping entire neighborhoods of Jewish people. And they were right. White folk fetishize property & not vulnerable people. Stop doing that!
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There was nothing of value left in the louvre, it was evacuated when they invaded the sudentenland, it was empty by the time france was invaded.
if you can't stand the Others pointing out busted behaviors and poisoned values, then you talk to your cousins about their busted behaviors & the poisoned values driving them instead :)
... I love this so much
it's still a mental & emotional trap that inspires one to lash out when a vulnerable person talks about harm. i think more of us can help our peers walk away from purity mindsets, towards real care
I've repeatedly run into a fear of the *government* taking people's stuff.
Gerald R. Ford: "A government strong enough to give you everything you need is strong enough to take everything you have."
But it's applied selectively, based on party & label.
Is that a thing? Because THAT I would be all for!
The White House reportedly asked South Dakota's governor how to add another president to Mount Rushmore, and she later gave Trump a 4-foot replica with his face on it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evacuation_of_the_Louvre_collection_during_World_War_II
*Obviously they did other things as well...
The property destruction was also heavily on the alcohol Prohibitionist side--which, to be fair, was a big issue because of the devastation happening to families then.
And I was including the suffs from the UK along with the USA. There was far more property damage on that side of the Atlantic if memory serves. And the suffs were an international movement!
please repost my post please 🙏
https://theweek.com/speedreads/917022/riot-language-unheard-martin-luther-king-jr-explained-53-years-ago
Non-violent protesters can disrupt, disturb, obstruct, inconvenience, etc. as long as they do not physically harm others. They should consider property damage - which is not violent - carefully, but never rule it out.
Since then his birthday is a holiday and his words are selectively ignored
Look it up!
The handwritten annotations give us a glimpse into how most "ordinary Americans," aka White folks, actually felt about Dr. King in his day.
Personal anecdote: My parents got married on April 4, 1970 and my Mom doesn't recall anybody questioning it.🤦🏻♂️
How MLK became an angry black man
https://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/16/us/king-birmingham-jail-letter-anniversary/index.html
📌 MLKJr
"Civility above all else" is a siren call from those comfortable with the status quo.
https://justunderreality.com/radical-civility/
In the next chapter we can talk about the efficiency of guillotine to remove the head of power that claims to be king 🤴🇫🇷
Seems to me like he’s pre-assigning blame for something he knows isn’t going to work.
Doing something you know will fail and pre-blaming white people is not serious.