Re:How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change
by krapp on Monday June 01, 2020 @07:26PM
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I'm sorry, but that rings hollow in a country with the Second Amendment and a gun culture that likes to wax poetic about watering the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants, or preach that school shootings are simply the price we pay for a free state.
You cannot tell a group of people that violence must be beneath them when they're facing a system that employs violence against them with impunity and often bends over backwards to justify it, in a culture which holds violence as one of the foundations of liberty itself. That would be suicidal.
Violence should be a last resort, but it can't ever be off the table, not in the US.
You cannot tell a group of people that violence must be beneath them when they're facing a system that employs violence against them with impunity and often bends over backwards to justify it, in a culture which holds violence as one of the foundations of liberty itself. That would be suicidal.
Violence should be a last resort, but it can't ever be off the table, not in the US.