1. People looking for precursors to the murder yesterday in Charlottesville may want to look at the Greensboro massacre of 1979.
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2. Many obvious big differences—notably the much more local focus in '79, and the larger number of deaths—but also similarities.
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3. The Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation report is here: http://www.greensborotrc.org/ (My old commie friend Bob Sheldon is in there somewhere.)
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4. While I'm at it: Participants in today's ACLU arguments may want to check out this book...http://press.princeton.edu/titles/4318.html …
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5. ...and also this book. http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520246652 ….
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6. Simplifying for Twitter, they suggest the FBI was able to attract liberal support for COINTELPRO by adding the KKK to its list of targets
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7. Cunningham argues that this in turn made it easier for the bureau to expand COINTELPRO to include the antiwar movement & Panthers.
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8. So, you know, be wary of carceral liberals bearing gifts.
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9. By the way: Greensboro did not spiral off into greater violence. So be wary as well of anyone calling further escalation "inevitable."
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10. Aggressive violence isn't an impersonal force that possesses people; it's something people choose to do. Screw determinism.
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I do think Greensboro, like Antifa now, raises real questions about strategy of direct confrontation. No easy answer.
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No different than fighting racists during civil rights struggle: non-violent confrontation & resistance, yes; street fighting (Antifa), no.
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I knew people who died in Greensboro; they had lost their political moorings & their common sense in a sectarian Maoism.
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