Yup. But I was responding to someone who said the only language the police understand and respect is violence. If it were that simple, then they wouldn’t have bothered writing at length about nonviolence.
Hard to argue against that. But if nonviolence doesn’t work, is violence the answer? I’m not prepared to go there. YMMV. I would agree that protesting seems to go nowhere. I’ll support anyone’s right to protest, but street protests seldom seem effective. They seem to just harden attitudes. But that’s probably a good discussion over beers.
Yeah, it shouldn’t ever be used that way. There’s a gulf of difference between making yourself heard and being passive, but too many people confuse non-violence with being passive. i.e Lunch counter sit ins weren’t passive, but non-violent.
And that was working with BLM. It was finally getting some traction. Trump knows this and is trying to spin it as a violent movement. I see no reason to help him.
I absolutely agree. I just don’t want to help them or add more to their ranks. There are millions more that are ignorant, ambivalent, self-absorbed, or unaware that don’t know what to think. They see protestors being cleared from a church near the White House, they are going to condemn the police. They see protestors throw or break something, they are going to condemn the protestors.
It just seems odd to play to the strength of the police and those that would encourage their violence.
