Listen.
When you look at photos of the 1960s civil rights movement, of those fine ass people dressed in their Sunday best being assaulted with milkshakes, dogs, and batons refusing to fight back i need you to know you're looking at effective, honest, useful, propaganda
When you look at photos of the 1960s civil rights movement, of those fine ass people dressed in their Sunday best being assaulted with milkshakes, dogs, and batons refusing to fight back i need you to know you're looking at effective, honest, useful, propaganda
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They were disrespecting you to as a person anyone would fight that
I get so angry when people speak about the past the good old days, not how I remember it. Not at all
Suit and tie I know
But how it was
I remember my grandfather saying
' A man couldn't go out in public without a good hat"
If you went to a public event
A ball game, you wore your best
You were representing your family name
Fuck that nostalgia.
Trust me, at home I wear what's comfortable I agree women are held to a higher standard but not just that, I've never been a clothes horse, but women have to be fashion sensitive, nobody cares what I wear
It's an unfair standard.
But as caveat
Im sure you don't in want to hear this, women are beautiful
That is all
What.
What does this have to do with what I just said?
A lot of times it's people's perception, is it truth
Of course not
Just insane
Among them was the suggestion that King only used nonviolence as a propaganda tool, and was not in fact a pacifist. He was a pacifist. As were his organizations. With or without publicists.
From the King Institute at Stanford:
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/nonviolence#:~:text=With%20guidance%20from%20black%20pacifist,of%20his%20home%2C%20with%20compassion.
From the King Institute at Stanford.
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/nonviolence#:~:text=With%20guidance%20from%20black%20pacifist,of%20his%20home%2C%20with%20compassion.
But the fact is he gave up his own guns when he embraced nonviolence. He even wrote about it. And he gave up his armed bodyguards . . . https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/between-king-guns/
Nobody wants their head bashed in to appease Mandy from Iowa. But they did it
My point isn't that guns are good. My point is too many of you guys act like people need to go through a full religious conversion in order to be useful to your cause.
Good luck with that.
https://www.mkgandhi.org/nonviolence/phil8.php
Here's a podcast on some of them!
https://pca.st/episode/3c2c1cdd-9200-4adf-a148-93c01a4914a2
Glad others already brought up appropriate episodes before I did!
Everyone should read more on the Civil Rights Movement, because what you learned in school was propaganda to convince you that protests were how change works.
Riots aren't the way to make friends, and backlash is to be expected, but also they point out something's very wrong. Changing entrenched public opinion is messy.
This is what I get for skeeting off the cuff without double checking myself on dates.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0335034/
https://bsky.app/profile/kendrawrites.com/post/3li6r2244fc2p
The commitment card of the Alabama SCLC:
https://minio.la.utexas.edu/webeditor-files/coretexts/pdf/mlk_commitment_card.pdf
My grandmothercarriesd a gun WELL into her 80s.
'Although King called the agreement “the most significant program ever conceived to make open housing a reality,”'
Surrounding context caveats, but can't fit the full quote.
He is content with his bit in the world, and where he ends up. Precisely because he has a robust set of values he sticks to.
But, “Convert to Islam, Repent later” & “You have taught me a great deal about religion, your eminence” is an important scene. Balian & Saladin are good knights, but the men under them, esp the remnants of the crusaders? Nah.
He’s pretty happy back in his forge.
As it turned out, there was “Room in all of Jerusalem for one good Knight.”
I can't make you read them, but at least for me, it was pretty persuasive.
also interesting that you think liberal democracy hasn't basically turned into those anyway
Unless you are just completely misunderstanding what liberal democracy means? Maybe you're attaching baggage like capitalism to it?
Democracy means people have a significant say (collectively) in how they're governed.
Those are both good things and I will die on that hill.
https://www.howardzinn.org/collection/peoples-history/