RE: Nonviolent Protest and Resistance Privileged
February 15, 2017 at 12:58 pm
(This post was last modified: February 15, 2017 at 1:10 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Incapable of discussing the topic at hand, objecting to word usage in a vacuum...chiefly concerned over the issue of people calling you dense, unwilling to acknowledge even the possibility that a desperate response can be justified.
-and yet we wonder why people riot?
@Kernel
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Good excerpt, I think that Gregg expresses a simplistic view of violence, but his appraisal of non-violent resistence is spot on. I'd go further to say that non-violent resistence positively -relies- on some expectation of order and civility, of protection by the state or by members of the majority. Which is why, in this case, it could be considered a white privilege. In the absence of a bare minimum expectation, the beatings commence - and it;s difficult to peacefully resist when you're dead. Particularly difficult for a minority community that does not have the bodies to spare, and cannot realistically absorb the loss of it's leaders. Obviously many protesters and rioters feel that there is no longer any such reasonable expectation.
-and yet we wonder why people riot?
@Kernel
Welcome to the show.
Good excerpt, I think that Gregg expresses a simplistic view of violence, but his appraisal of non-violent resistence is spot on. I'd go further to say that non-violent resistence positively -relies- on some expectation of order and civility, of protection by the state or by members of the majority. Which is why, in this case, it could be considered a white privilege. In the absence of a bare minimum expectation, the beatings commence - and it;s difficult to peacefully resist when you're dead. Particularly difficult for a minority community that does not have the bodies to spare, and cannot realistically absorb the loss of it's leaders. Obviously many protesters and rioters feel that there is no longer any such reasonable expectation.
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