More Information About Last Week’s Takedowns

Re:More Information About Last Week’s Takedowns by prolikewh0a on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @05:12PM (#18445419)

Sowing discord is how change happens. Why are we blaming this ALL on Russia to seemingly keep a status quo intact? The whole Russian thing seems like a propaganda campaign by the FBI to keep people hooked on the status quo, that anything outside of the norm is obviously Vladimir Putin's doings.

Martin Luther King Jr sowed discord and divided society in beneficial and positive ways. Take a look at the Poor People's Campaign. How could civil rights have taken place if they didn't change people's minds?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

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Re:More Information About Last Week’s Takedowns by bilbo0s on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @05:56PM (#18445693)

To be fair to the FBI, King was trying to increase unity via the mechanism of inclusivity. The discord arose because a lot of people wanted to maintain non-unity via the mechanism of exclusivity. So the question becomes, did King sow discord? Or did the guys blowing up the black churches during sunday school sow discord?

And that's where all the subjective judgements come in. A lot of us would say that the guys setting off the bombs were sowing the discord. But, whether we like having them here or not, there is a group of people in the US who would say that King provoked peaceful citizens into blowing up little sunday school girls. And these two thought groups in the US will likely never be reconciled.

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