• helenslunch
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    7 months ago

    Really? You think people had their businesses burned down and their town destroyed and thought to themselves “boy I hope these people get what they wanted!” or do you think they thought “These people are human garbage and I hope they rot in prison”? Which one of these thought processes makes more sense to you?

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      7 months ago

      Correct. English sufferage was only gained after a group of women took on learning jujitsu, wearing badass capes and paper body armor and went out burning government buildings and breaking all the windows in anti sufferagette buildings/homes and when police showed up they’d kick the shit out of them with jujitsu and then they’d make a speech the police couldn’t break up because their faces were meeting their asses for the first time and in a most uncomfortable way.

      Ed: because it’s interesting and I’m sure people won’t take my word.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffrajitsu

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      7 months ago

      The protests started because the police murdered a man in full view of a group of witnesses, a lot of people had a vested interest in making sure that didn’t happen again, in a way that non violent protest would not have achieved.

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        7 months ago

        Quite the opposite. A non-violent protest would have achieved much more. The rioters and looters only obstructed the cause.