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Originally Posted by wittynickname
How many revolutions in history have been non-violent affairs?
Revolution is rarely neat and tidy and without collateral damage.
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Originally Posted by flameswin
Unfortunately, we're getting to a point where it's not going to be a choice between violent and non-violent means to bring about change. It's going to be a choice between violent means and nothing happening.
Nothing happening and non-violent means are pretty close to one in the same already for minorities in the United States.
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See these posts are made, and I wonder if people understand what they mean.
"Revolution is rarely neat and tidy and without collateral damage" What you should have written is people die during revolutions, and often the deaths are those of the innocent, on both sides.
It is easy for us to sit behind out computers as call for "revolution" or violent change. It is a very different thing to be standing in the neighbourhoods that will suffer this violent protest and "revolution".
Many of us have no idea the impact of societal violence. Death is ####ing nasty and complete.