It was NOT giving people information or arguments they did not have before That is ridiculous, and insulting "Oh well I just never actually knew oppressing Black people was wrong until now I thought they liked it"
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This childish belief that Jim Crow segregation took place entirely within impenetrable opaque domes and regular decent white people just didn't know it was happening Grow up
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MLK's marches weren't intended to make people KNOW about racism but to make them CARE To put the image on TV and newspapers and in your face so you couldn't ignore it So you would feel ashamed of it
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MLK was explicitly about this This Christian idea of convicting people of sin, of invoking guilt and shame The idea of civil disobedience is to make them beat you up, to force the issue, so that power has to openly reveal the hidden violence that sustains it A "moral crisis"
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Malcolm X didn't like that He thought it was quite likely to fail, because white America had no conscience to appeal to, they had no shame Which is why he wanted to move on from there to intimidation
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But none of them believed this shit was about *debate*, about *argument* "Oh well I just didn't know Black people are people and segregation made them feel bad you've given me a lot to consider hmm hmm
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I can't believe people are sitting here in 2020 acting like argument and debate are more effective persuaders than shame.
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You can catch people in logical fallacies all day and it will never compare to making someone question the solidity of their social status.
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i got big big brain weevils in ~2015 b/c of an extremely close friend falling tits over toes into g*merg*te through "can't vote for HRC" landing in MAGAville, and blamed it on me for "shaming him" with SJ and civil rights stuff I was saying on the socials media at the time
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i got really, really into optics arguments and rhetoric and debating people at about the same time the entire political situation was fucking going berserk because i was so convinced that i had fucked up, somehow, here
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