I don’t know about the Vietnam war protests, but the Civil Rights Movement was a lot more militant than do-nothing liberals would want you to believe. Look up the Black Panthers and people like Malcolm X, and even the peaceful side included real civil disobedience and obstruction. There’s no equivalence between what Americans are doing now and what MLK and crew did.
The Black Panthers weren’t even formed until the greatest victories of the Civil Rights Movement had already been won, and for all of Malcolm X’s rhetoric before leaving the Nation of Islam, the threat of violence from Black Nationalists was not a core factor to the victories of the Civil Rights Movement.
MLK Jr. spent nearly a decade and a half building organizations and connections for nationwide resistance.
We remember this shit. The problem is that the US was a different country back then. Look at Nixon, he did far less than trump and had to leave the presidency. Trump isn’t going anywhere, no matter how much bad shit he does. This country has changed for the worse. Those checks and balances which enabled those past movement to be successful are gone. They are completely utterly destroyed. History is one thing, but you have to look at the present as well, because right now the history is blinding you and the people in my country from doing things that might actually work.
Wrong. Just look at your own history…
To only quote the ones off the top of my head. I’d expect an American to remember these better than me.
I don’t know about the Vietnam war protests, but the Civil Rights Movement was a lot more militant than do-nothing liberals would want you to believe. Look up the Black Panthers and people like Malcolm X, and even the peaceful side included real civil disobedience and obstruction. There’s no equivalence between what Americans are doing now and what MLK and crew did.
The Black Panthers weren’t even formed until the greatest victories of the Civil Rights Movement had already been won, and for all of Malcolm X’s rhetoric before leaving the Nation of Islam, the threat of violence from Black Nationalists was not a core factor to the victories of the Civil Rights Movement.
MLK Jr. spent nearly a decade and a half building organizations and connections for nationwide resistance.
American education in a nutshell lol (which is part of the systemic problem, and by design)
Yep. Lack of education and pacifying Americans by making them believe that stuff like protests and unions are against their interests. Sad.
We remember this shit. The problem is that the US was a different country back then. Look at Nixon, he did far less than trump and had to leave the presidency. Trump isn’t going anywhere, no matter how much bad shit he does. This country has changed for the worse. Those checks and balances which enabled those past movement to be successful are gone. They are completely utterly destroyed. History is one thing, but you have to look at the present as well, because right now the history is blinding you and the people in my country from doing things that might actually work.