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405 Freeway: Gaza protesters block traffic in West Los Angeles (www.foxla.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (14 children)

I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice

If your devotion is to order, where your allegiance is to the polite convenience you've come to accept and expect as a first world consumer, you are no ally of justice.

[+] [email protected] -9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I dont know what you are trying to get at. I think you should realize that getting on freeway and making everyone mad = bad protest; doing a sit-in and getting the harm visable = good protest.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Its that you make this comment without any comprehension of history.

In 1958, you would have been writing this exact same comment about a sit-in protest being "bad protest". Your worldview just rewrites you into being on the right side of history on things, when now, when you have the opportunity to be on the right side of history while its happening, you aren't.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dude, I literally havent take a side, I am just telling you what I think works and what doesnt. If you think getting people fighting mad on a freeway is a way to win people over, I would have to disagree.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I am just telling you what I think works and what doesnt.

Like, I don't know how else to explain this to you, but that is quite literally a "side", both now and historically, in this discussion.

Read or learn literally anything about the history of protestation.

I assure you, you are already on a side, even if you dont know you are.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Again, no I am not taking a side, I am informing on what type of protest would be effective in my opinion.

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