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Re:62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Af... by bb88 on Thursday July 23, 2020 @10:49PM (#23935192)
> ... your doing so demonstrates an unwillingness on your part to argue in good faith.

You argued:

  A: Unfortunately, in your world, the racists and white
     supremacists take over
That presupposes this:

  B: In a democracy a majority of the people have to agree
     that white supremacy should be the dominant principle for
     governmental rule.
I was pointing out that in order for A to happen, B must happen as well -- but in a rhetorical way to deeply undermine your argument. I assure you, it was completely in good faith. You probably just didn't like the result of it.

> No they weren't. They were accomplished with speech and consequence, often long, violent, ugly protests and frequently civil unrest.

Rosa Parks didn't throw a brick through a window. She refused to sit in the back of the bus. That started a boycott of the bus system, and it worked without bloodshed.

Sure blood was spilled in the civil rights marches but not because the people marching wanted it to be.

Re:62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Af... by watwut on Saturday July 25, 2020 @10:27AM (#23949418)
Rosa Parks sitting in was not act of activism. Pretty much everything before and after in her life was.

I Rosa Parks was radical whole her life. She was not proponent of super peaceful activism, she at the moment thought fighting would he strategically bad idea.

Had she been meek lady, there would be no protests.

She did lived at violent place at the time, did dealt with lynchings, beatings and legal protests up to that point. She did not had philosophy of peaceful activism above all.

While she was not violent, she was not proponent of peaceful above all protesting. That was Kings philosophy and even he was up to breaking law.