It's almost like violence and persuasion are BOTH tools with applications in fighting oppression, rather than picking one or the other as The One True Faith(tm)? 🤯

PugJesus@lemmy.world · 20 days ago

It's almost like violence and persuasion are BOTH tools with applications in fighting oppression, rather than picking one or the other as The One True Faith(tm)? 🤯

YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world · 20 days ago

Those who still retain the smallest fractions of their humanities can still be reasoned with… But how many of those are left, especially in the West? Oh well.

PugJesus@lemmy.world · 20 days ago

… I would go so far as to suggest that Mandela, Gandhi, and MLK Jr. were addressing significantly more hostile audiences than protesters in the modern West.