...Violence never solves anything, and diplomacy solves even lesshttps://twitter.com/the_moviebob/status/827004747374817281 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
The biggest way to shut down these lectures is to point out that all the progress you take for granted had fear of violence behind it
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Why do you have a 40-hour work week and overtime pay? Because of the riot in Haymarket Square
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Why can two men hold hands in public without getting arrested? Because of the Stonewall Riots
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Why was slavery abolished? Because of one of the bloodiest and most brutal wars in the history of the world
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Violence by itself didn't permanently "solve" any of these problems but that's bc NOTHING DOES
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"Fear doesn't change the heart of a bigot" Yeah, and neither do nice speeches and happy songs
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The people in that church extended love and acceptance to Dylann Roof and in your sappy movie that would've been his moment of repentance
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Instead they all got gunned down because we live in the real world
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NOTHING changes the heart of a bigot. But fear of a bullet might stay his hand - and if the fear doesn't, the actual bullet might
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Replying to @arthur_affect
My take on Berkeley tonight was that a distinct group was responsible for the violence. May have been extremists, they 1/
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Replying to @ttyger @arthur_affect
May have been outside instigators, or...? I suspect their actual purpose was violence, protest was incidental or irrelevant.
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