Steve CoxKonto zweryfikowane

Oftentimes people view civilian murder as worse b/c police officer has authority to be violent & to kill. Normalization of state violence

If you realize that we're all just people, some legally allowed to be violent & some not, it's pretty disturbing how normalized it all is

The current social order of white supremacy, which is an oppressive construct, is held in place by statist violence

There are all kinds of protests & riots in USA. Only those which challenge the oppresive order are met with police tanks

So when speaking of nonviolence, it needs to be understood that violence is a pervasive aspect of the current social order

Any discussion of violence v nonviolence that doesn't take into account state violence is disingenuous IMO

& I'm wary of anyone who is more disturbed by the use of violence as a response to oppression than by the violence of oppression itself

To me that indicates a person isn't really bothered by violence itself, but simply who gets to use it against whom