• lime!@feddit.nu
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    1 day ago

    yeah that sounds like an education failure. a peaceful protest is like when India won its independence, where protestors stood their ground even as police were beating them to death.

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      Of course! The narrative taught in school about the US civil rights movement or the Indian independence movement is that the empires were having tea and crumpets then because enough people asked very politely and walked courteously near the nexus of power they got their rights/independance. Oh and also because one person sat somewhere on a bus, or a few people did a hunger sit /not a strike/.

      We’re taught from childhood that you can make change by inconveniencing no one. It only makes sense that the narrative would survive where it’s left unchallenged.