RE: Nonviolent Protest and Resistance Privileged
February 14, 2017 at 10:55 am
(This post was last modified: February 14, 2017 at 11:09 am by The Grand Nudger.)
So is provoking violence. Expending lives to wear the other faction down. That;s the entire point of provocation. To give the other guys a chance to show themselves to be exactly what you say they are..over and over..until they run out of bodies to shoot or a taste for shooting bodies.
As another example of it;s effectiveness...":controlling the narrative" is easily subverted. If you can provoke a sustained and fevered hysteria on the part of the controlling party's media, and people are subjected to that day in and day out...that also wears on the collective will of the majority demographic the power structure relies on, as well as their trust -in- that power structure. Propaganda becomes obvious, even to dolts, at some point.
One might ask who was controlling the narrative in the first place. One could argue, for example, that the violent response to peaceful civil rights protestors, and the obviously bigoted official lines sold to the public -about- them...had just as much of an effect as the peacefulness of the protesters themselves on changing the situation. It wore down our taste for institutional racism, it wore down our patience for being associated with institutional racism, and it certainly wore down our patience for enforcing institutional racism.
How many of us want to see the cops in full urban war getups, rolling onto city streets in uparmored assault vehicles, tossing diluted chemical weapons into crowds or, worst case scenario, opening fire on mobs? How long will we stand for that..regardless of why they do it? How long will we stand to see the converse, people using their own bodies and improvised weapons as a means to be heard? At what point do we just give up the bullshit and say "okay, you clearly have a greivance, or at least you think you do..let;s go to the table for meaningful and unambiguous reform." How many of us already think we should be at that point...why aren't we? Hence, rioters.
As another example of it;s effectiveness...":controlling the narrative" is easily subverted. If you can provoke a sustained and fevered hysteria on the part of the controlling party's media, and people are subjected to that day in and day out...that also wears on the collective will of the majority demographic the power structure relies on, as well as their trust -in- that power structure. Propaganda becomes obvious, even to dolts, at some point.
One might ask who was controlling the narrative in the first place. One could argue, for example, that the violent response to peaceful civil rights protestors, and the obviously bigoted official lines sold to the public -about- them...had just as much of an effect as the peacefulness of the protesters themselves on changing the situation. It wore down our taste for institutional racism, it wore down our patience for being associated with institutional racism, and it certainly wore down our patience for enforcing institutional racism.
How many of us want to see the cops in full urban war getups, rolling onto city streets in uparmored assault vehicles, tossing diluted chemical weapons into crowds or, worst case scenario, opening fire on mobs? How long will we stand for that..regardless of why they do it? How long will we stand to see the converse, people using their own bodies and improvised weapons as a means to be heard? At what point do we just give up the bullshit and say "okay, you clearly have a greivance, or at least you think you do..let;s go to the table for meaningful and unambiguous reform." How many of us already think we should be at that point...why aren't we? Hence, rioters.
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