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Re:How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to ev... by UncleMeat on Saturday September 04, 2021 @08:17AM (#28414407)
> We have made huge progress in areas such as women's rights.

And suffragettes put bombs in mailboxes and threw their bodies under horses. 2nd wave feminists were far more "anti-man" than modern feminists (there aren't too many political lesbians nowadays). The "peaceful protest" that people recall so fondly rarely was so peaceful but is instead used as a cudgel to resist all change today by claiming that activists aren't "doing it right".

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Re:How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to ev... by FiberBundle on Saturday September 04, 2021 @08:59AM (#28414689)
> And suffragettes put bombs in mailboxes and threw their bodies under horses

And you think that had a positive effect on women's suffrage?

> 2nd wave feminists were far more "anti-man" than modern feminists

Well so what? Was suppressing men an actual tactic that contributed to progress?

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Re:How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to ev... by UncleMeat on Saturday September 04, 2021 @09:36AM (#28414957)
The bombs in the mailboxes? Absolutely.
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Re:How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to ev... by refurb on Saturday September 04, 2021 @10:49AM (#28415612)
Violence rarely works politically unless you’re talking about revolution.
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Re:How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to ev... by UncleMeat on Saturday September 04, 2021 @12:19PM (#28416372)
In the UK, you can see a dramatic change in the response to suffrage activism after these sorts of things started. Decades of calm requests went nowhere.
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Re:How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to ev... by kortilla on Saturday September 04, 2021 @06:34PM (#28419996)
No, terrorism did not work
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Re:How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to ev... by UncleMeat on Saturday September 04, 2021 @09:59PM (#28421080)
Votes for women.

It wasn't obtained through asking politely.

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Re:How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to ev... by kortilla on Sunday September 05, 2021 @05:50AM (#28422860)
Those bombings didn’t result in votes for women at all.

> The campaign was halted at the outbreak of war in August 1914 without having brought about votes for women, as suffragettes pledged to pause their campaigning to aid the nation's war effort.

> The extent to which suffragette militancy contributed to the eventual enfranchisement of women in 1918 has been debated by historians, although the consensus of historical opinion is that the militant campaign was not effective.

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

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