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Comment by stronglikedan

5 years ago

Now if only they'd give Kaepernick's tweet [0] equal treatment, to be even-handed.

[0] https://twitter.com/Kaepernick7/status/1266046129906552832?s...

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arrrg  5 years ago

Even nonviolent protest was never intended to be peaceful. Not in they way many people would use the word “peace”, anyway.

“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: ‘I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action’; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a ‘more convenient season.’”

That’s MLK in his letter from a Birmingham jail. Who was completely devoted to nonviolence. Even he made abundantly clear that nonviolence does not equal a lack of pressure or tension.

ViViDboarder  5 years ago

I don’t see Kap mentioning shooting anyone in that tweet? Either you linked the wrong one or you’re trying to paint a false equivalence.

  • amscanne  5 years ago

    Sure reads to me like it’s advocating for violent revolt, albeit far more eloquently. I think this is the fundamental problem: it’s all subjective.

    • ViViDboarder  5 years ago

      One literally says that they will send military and says there will be shooting. The other doesn’t put the word violent near the word revolt at all.

      Of course, everything is subjective. It all depends on how many people interpret something in a particular way. You’re not objectively wrong, but I don’t believe the majority of folks reading share your same view.

ceejayoz  5 years ago

There’s such a thing as a peaceful revolution. Portraying this as similar to the President calling for shooting people is disingenuous.