Nonviolent Protest and Resistance Privileged

[The Grand Nudger]

Well it's just a simple disagreement.

You believe any protest is justifiable when a person risks their life for that protest.

I could never make such a blanket statement like that.

I think every protest or cause has to be judged on its own pros and cons rather than on how willing a person is to die for that cause.

Don't you think that the proponents willingness to die for a cause is one of the metrics by which the cause can be assessed, perhaps even the most consequential metric, in the present?

If a person tells you "We've got it rough" and their way of dealing with that is just telling you so.  Another persons tells you "we've got it rough" and they organize peaceful demonstrations and work hard within the orthodoxy to "fit in".  Then, yet another, says "we've got it rough"...and lobs a bomb at cops in riot gear....might that be demonstrative of something?

Do you think that there just -might- be a way to assess each individuals point in the curve of desperation and disenfranchisement?  What if all three people are the same group, over the course of 60 (or even 150...) years, each expressing the same fundamental grievance as the previous generation?

Disenfranchised communities in the united states have put up with more egregious and intentional shit, for a longer period of time, than the original colonists did before they declared all out war. I think it might be fair to assume that, for some people, any reasonable expectation of patience and peaceful tolerance to abuse has been exhausted. I consider violence a justifiable, even if disagreeable, response to such a long standing trend. Particularly when recent events and developments (not the least of which public opinion and reactions....or a lack thereof) show us to be moving -retrograde- against the snails pails of any actual progress made.