mate it’s hard to explain mate it’s just like one day you’ll just be wif your mates having a look in jd and you might fancy curry club at the ‘Spoons but your lad Calum who’s an absolute ledge and the archbishop of banterbury will be like ‘brevs lets have a cheeky nandos instead.” and you’ll think “Top. Let’s smash it.”
people who discuss martin luther king jr as a successful example of anti-violence should know they’re part of a pretty vast propaganda campaign that’s existed since the late 70s to whitewash the history of the civil rights era. as soon as king took aim at desegregating northern cities, especially chicago, hate for him exploded. according to gallup, he was actually reviled by 1966, with two thirds of the country saying they had a negative perception of him. the major responses to his assassination mostly track with governor ronald reagan’s assessment of him, that he deserved his own death. it was common to see letters in newspapers and in senators’ offices that said things like “It is my firm belief, and [that] of all my neighbors, that King should be taken into custody. … Today, the insufferable arrogance of this character places him on a pedestal as a dark-skinned Hitler…. When greedy Mr. Hitler started taking over other countries, people at first thought ‘give him a little more, then he will be satisfied.’ Give greedy Mr. King a little more freedom then he will stop. Isn’t that what we are being told today?… Is the ultimate aim the same as the Soviet Union when all property was collectivized?“ (all from nixonland, rick perlstein). white public opinion even blamed him directly for the riots going on in american cities, as in this cartoon:
this in response to his disagreement with the war in vietnam and his effort to ensure those selling their houses couldn’t refuse to sell them to black people because they were black. king preached non-violence, and white people despised him for it.
I don’t get this post. People hated MLK, yes, and eventually murdered him. But he still won. The civil rights laws passed. How is that unsuccessful?
As a non-USian, I also don’t get it. At first they painted him as violent, then they portrayed him as a pacifist, and both times it was slander? What are you trying to say in this post, OP?
Not OP, might not say anything they agree with.
King had a particular strategy. They lied (type A) to discredit him, but his strategy still perserviered (I don’t say “won” because it’s not like racism stopped). Now they lie in the other way (type B), in order to discredit the movements they’re trying to lie (type A) about now. Because in juxtaposition when you push strategy in the direction of lie B, it makes the stuff in the same place look like they’re type A, when you don’t realize you’re on a spectrum.
Violence or non-violence is probably a false dichotomy, and a mixed strategy can be nuanced, contextual, and successful because it can potentially win through pathways locked out from one of the paths.
It’s like, if you say only yellow movements can win, and red only leads to ruin. Well you got this orange guy you can’t stand so you call him red so everyone abandons him and his movement fails. But he “wins”. So you recast him as yellow, because he has yellow features and only yellow wins, but in fact he was always orange, the ill-defined region between the two. And it’s really unfair to orange, because now orangists are called red by yellow, the same yellow plus a generation that stood against orange a generation ago. It’s just false because he was neither red nor yellow. And continuing to present the false dichotomy is bad, because it’s a strategy used by people dishonestly manipulating the playing field.
Like, the Dalai Lama is not a peacenik; he educates guerilla organizations in India for the ultimate purpose of taking Tibet back from the PRC. He’s not yellow, and weaponizing him against the Tibetan liberation movement is to dishonor him and inaccurately characterize them. Of course it doesn’t follow that he’s actually bad (i.e. red) and therefore the PLA and the PRC are the good guys (that yellow is good), but that’s the kind of how the propagandists want you to see the situation. It’s giving the reigns to other people.
You’ll want to skip medications or go for a run or not eat as often/much/little/etc as you should. And you’ll sit in the pain and suffering just to make your body hurt as much as you do mentally. But take a deep breath, and know that it doesn’t help. You’ll do it two or three or ten times before it truly sinks in, but remember, it doesn’t help.
Things nobody tells you when you have a chronic illness
but like TW for sexual assault and stuff. There’s a bit about responses to “if a woman said no to you” in there that are pretty vile and triggers but it has a big old trigger warning in the article.
My cousin is a preschool teacher and asked her students to suggest names for the baby she is expecting. It went well.
grandma
Kids have to have middle names and last names too you know there’s no reason only one of these had to be chosen. Someone could have the privilege of growing up Tiny Racecar Grandma or Assie [Blank Space] Potato.
The dog has an issue where his esophagus doesn’t work right; it doesn’t get food in there right because it’s all stretched out and stuff. So what dog owners (and cat owners and I guarantee you the cat ones look goofier) do is make a highchair and feed them upright so gravity can be a hero. It’s also really cute.
The disorder is called Megaesophagus.
Here is a cat with the same disorder in his eatin’ sock.
Whatup it’s Caleb. My wheelchair (pictured above) is all but totalled right now (almost all plastic parts are broken or bent including where the seat rails meet the back canes), and I just had another surgery. I’m trying to save up for a rigid chair, and I also need help covering my living expenses while I’m off work.
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