It’s educate, AGITATE, organize

edit: putting this at the top so people understand the basis for this:

You may well ask: “Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a better path?” You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the nonviolent resister may sound rather shocking. But I must confess that I am not afraid of the word “tension.” I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood.

Letter from Birmingham, MLK

  • archomrade [he/him]OPEnglish
    1•7 months ago

    But you’ve openly stated that your position’s purpose is to create a crisis in Biden’s election which will force him to either capitulate to your demands or lose.

    I’ve also openly stated that I think Biden can’t win with this position (his polling is at least not evidence against that theory), regardless of what I’m doing here. I think his only route to victory is about-facing (I also think it’s an extremely important issue in its own right that deserves agitation over).

    He has 6 months to win and the convention is still a few months away, fingers crossed that he gets the message.

    • @PugJesusEnglish
      0•7 months ago

      I think his only route to victory is about-facing (I also think it’s an extremely important issue in its own right that deserves agitation over).

      I think you overestimate the importance of this issue to the electorate, and you overestimate how left-wing the American electorate is.

      • archomrade [he/him]OPEnglish
        1•7 months ago

        I think you under-estimate how unpopular supporting the genocide would be, if only Biden wasn’t actively denying it happening and that message wasn’t being suppressed (let alone being communicated from Biden and congress themselves)

        I think we have a pretty good cross-section of where we disagree.