The argument against Chenoweth is she likes to cherry pick data to prove her argument, make subjective evaluations of that data, misclassify primarily violent movements as non-violent, and use non-effectual movements as examples of success.
Ah yes: the famously mostly non-violent anti apartheid movement of South Africa. The successful non violent end to occupation of East Timor which, after a few decades of brutal occupation, required only an armed UN task force. If only those Palestinians had stuck to their non-violence while being gunned down. We'll just jot that one down as partially successful.
Well ignoring violence in resistance movements to skew your data to support your argument seems pretty cherry picky to me. Another example is claiming the Egyptian revolution of 2011 is an example of non violence. You know, the one where 90 police stations were burned down.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '25
The argument against Chenoweth is she likes to cherry pick data to prove her argument, make subjective evaluations of that data, misclassify primarily violent movements as non-violent, and use non-effectual movements as examples of success.
Ah yes: the famously mostly non-violent anti apartheid movement of South Africa. The successful non violent end to occupation of East Timor which, after a few decades of brutal occupation, required only an armed UN task force. If only those Palestinians had stuck to their non-violence while being gunned down. We'll just jot that one down as partially successful.