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itsalways1312somewhere wrote

I think american feminists should give violence chance. Less electoralism, more arson and shit.

(I aknowledge that that's easy for me to say as a european without a uterus, from the comfort of my couch, but it seems like voting real hard has so far not brought the US any closer to a law that solidifies a pregnant person's right to bodily autonomy)

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zephyr wrote

i wonder how many men in the u.s. would risk going to prison for women's abortion rights?

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itsalways1312somewhere wrote (edited )

I think women's violence would not be seen as something to be feared or as something valid.

I think that depends on the level of violence. Especially if they're already going to convict you of murder, you might as well give them something to really make those charges stick.

If this happened in my country, I'd like to imagine I'd pimp a judge's ride like the IRA - in a video game, to blow off some steam

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Tecate_Coyote wrote (edited )

Liberalism isn't the answer but neither is violence, no matter how tempting it is. If we look at the Civil Rights movement, Malcolm X advocated for violence initially and later changed his mind embracing MLK's perspective. I think protests, sit-downs, strikes, etc are the answer. Violence will only allow the media and the state to villanize us further, as they did with movements like Antifa and BLM.

edit: Whoops, I was wrong, my bad. Looks like I got some more reading to do

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existential1 wrote

Malcolm did not change his mind to fully embracing MLK's perspective. He did experience Hajj which changed his mind about considerably many things. However, the plausible use of violence was not one of those things.

It is safe to say he respected MLK's perspective, but felt it naive.

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Tecate_Coyote wrote

Sheesh, you're right, I was totally talking out of my ass with what I remembered from high school history.

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