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black-culture:

Stop demonizing riots.-@zellieimani

The main contradiction of liberal democracy is that it has largely been shaped through a history of various forms of illegal civil disobedience against entrenched power structures. Such civil disobedience is (retrospectively) seen as justified, and the people committing it are (retrospectively) seen as heroes…but each successive generation is asked to believe that any further civil disobedience would be unreasonable.

each successive generation is asked to believe that any further civil disobedience would be unreasonable.

Riots are not civil disobedience. Civil disobedience are protests. Peaceful protests. That’s why they’re called civil. Riots are people taking their anger out on people who are barely related to why they’re angry.

… it’s called ‘’civil disobedience’’ because it’s civilians opposing their own government on the matter of civic rights, not because it’s polite.

remember that post where that guy was trying to claim calling someone a “pussy” has nothing to do with vagina and is instead short for “pusillanimous?
 this is a little like that