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“No justice no peace” strikes me as tautological. That’s why there’s never been either in history and things keep changing. It’s like Newton’s 3rd law of history. Just when you think you’ve figured it out, someone invents something that changes game and you have to start over.
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#NoJusticeNoPeace can be tautological & still be rhetorically effective. When someone comes at me with "Why aren't you being peaceful?" I like being able to come back with "Why aren't you being just? You can have more peace when you increase justice."
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Adding the pointing words for it would clarify this, it’s just not as catchy: “no justice (for us), no peace (for you)”
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At the BLM rally in Melbourne (Aus) people were chanting "no justice, no peace, no racist police", which to me it just made no sense as it made it sound like an enumeration of things undesired, rather that the original cause (no justice)/effect (no peace).