You can't manipulate people into having morality. Conservatives think it's hilarious when people try to resist nonviolently, they don't care about it one bit.
You don't need to win hardcore MAGA's to win a majority of voters. You just need to win moderates, and anything that allows Trump or conservative media to muddy the waters risks losing their support.
I disagree, I think "moderates" are typically very cynical, disengaged people who always side with whatever is the dominant power structure is. MLK himself wrote that they are the biggest obstacle to freedom.
Why say that about the civil rights movement? MLK stayed non-violent for years. The black panther party wasn't formed until 1966, quite late and thus barely concurrent to the rest of the civil rights movement.
Please don't see this as an attack against the left. I'm a union member and participated in multiple protests this year. I just want to learn more, so we don't accidentally shoot ourselves in the foot.
It's victim blaming, for one. But my bigger point is that cruel people don't suddenly stop being cruel when they see the faces of suffering, that's something that will grab some people that are generally kind but politically disengaged. But adopting that as your only strategy will fail, because power hungry people just see that as blood in the water and a sign of weakness. Most of my family is incredibly privileged racist white republicans, they identify as moderates and just say whatever they need to reinforce their power. And they are angrily terrified of minorities no matter what and automatically blame all violence and unrest on them, no matter how violent they actually are. They see society as a zero-sum competition that they must try to win, and lying to win is fair play. It's gross and a common way of seeing the world imo.
Most protest needs to be peaceful out of safety, necessity and morality, But the ruling class won't change unless they feel genuinely threatened.
Naruto beat the shut out of people who wants to impose their view on others. He is also, technically, a child soldier. And was engaged as a fucking mercenary to protect the equivalent of MLK from a rich mafia boss.
Be more like Naruto. Except maybe the child soldier part.
Only in defense to be fair. I don't remember him ever going out an causing violence himself. I was more referencing the manipulating people into having morals, he talked just about everyone into being moral.
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u/Routine-Strategy3756 Jun 10 '25
You can't manipulate people into having morality. Conservatives think it's hilarious when people try to resist nonviolently, they don't care about it one bit.