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We call what happened in Prague in 1989 the “Velvet Revolution” because no one died. But watch the footage. It wasn’t absent use of force.
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We talk about Ghandi and King being nonviolent because they didn’t participate in violence nor call for it, because it was part of a strategy to position power and aggression as one in the same. But violence was present in both of their movements, in both directions.
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When the National Guard is deployed to escort Black students into public school, that is a use of violence: specifically, the threat of state violence to ensure compliance with civil rights law.
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Violence is not a term with a clear definition. It waxes and wanes with how we want to see our past.
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