• @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      There are genuinely people who think like that. To be fair, the George Floyd protests/riots changed things in a way that peaceful protest had so far failed to do.

        • @[email protected]
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          91 year ago

          I disagree, I think having an entire block burnt down made a lot of people decide they don’t want to see this happen again, in a way a regular protest wouldn’t have.

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              Correct. English sufferage was only gained after a group of women took on learning jujitsu, wearing badass capes and paper body armor and went out burning government buildings and breaking all the windows in anti sufferagette buildings/homes and when police showed up they’d kick the shit out of them with jujitsu and then they’d make a speech the police couldn’t break up because their faces were meeting their asses for the first time and in a most uncomfortable way.

              Ed: because it’s interesting and I’m sure people won’t take my word.

              https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffrajitsu

                • @Madison420
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                  51 year ago

                  It’s a very weird story, I won’t take it personally.

              • DarkGamer
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                11 year ago

                That is fucking wild! How was I never aware of this? Thanks for sharing it.

                • @Madison420
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                  41 year ago

                  Because governments don’t particularly want it known that an effective protest is one that puts the government in fear.

            • @[email protected]
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              21 year ago

              The protests started because the police murdered a man in full view of a group of witnesses, a lot of people had a vested interest in making sure that didn’t happen again, in a way that non violent protest would not have achieved.