😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈@lemmy.world to AskHistorians@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 days agoWhen was the last time that mass protest actually helped change U.S. policy?message-squaremessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up124arrow-down1message-squareWhen was the last time that mass protest actually helped change U.S. policy?😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈@lemmy.world to AskHistorians@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 days agomessage-square8fedilinkfile-text
I feel that with the complete arrogance and disregard for the law that the Feds will do absolutely nothing.
minus-squareguldukat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·edit-219 days agoSuffrage, civil rights, it works. Interracial marriage used to be illegal. Women couldn’t vote
minus-squareHasturInYellow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·19 days agoOk but like, protests like those took years. do you think that it’s acceptable to wait several years to fix this? Do we need to wait until they have exterminated 10,000 people? Or is it 100,000?
minus-squareguldukat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·19 days agoNot acceptable, no. But what is there to do?
minus-squareHasturInYellow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·18 days agoI mean historically, people have done violence about this sort of thing.
Suffrage, civil rights, it works. Interracial marriage used to be illegal. Women couldn’t vote
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Ok but like, protests like those took years. do you think that it’s acceptable to wait several years to fix this? Do we need to wait until they have exterminated 10,000 people? Or is it 100,000?
Not acceptable, no. But what is there to do?
I mean historically, people have done violence about this sort of thing.