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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
I'm merely posting to refute your ahistorical accounting of the history of the civil rights movement in the US.
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Originally Posted by Tinordi
My goodness. Violence had no role in advancing the civil rights movement?
Is that a serious argument?
I suggest reading a book on the civil rights movement.
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The civil rights movement was successful because of its moral righteousness. And it's morally righteousness rested on the dedication of its leaders not to initiate violence.
Of course it was violent. The whole point was to defy the law and provoke a violent reaction that would gain the sympathy of the American public.
Do you really think the cause would have gone better if sympathizers had smuggled weapons into the South and the marchers at Selma had been armed?
You guys are smarter than this. Hatred of Trump is no reason to abandon the core principles of civil society - or even just to posture about it on a forum.