• @[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.

      • @Madison420
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        1 year ago

        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.