US Politics on Yik Yak | the idea that civil rights protests were wholly nonviolent is… exceptionally false. there’s a reason you were force fed that narrative in history class.

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the idea that civil rights protests were wholly nonviolent is… exceptionally false. there’s a reason you were force fed that narrative in history class.

US Politics 14w

Civil Rights peaceful protests were for the media. “Holy shit they’re hosing people who are just standing there. I’m on the side of the CRA not the cops” But now, we’re desensitized to peaceful protests and oppression against them.You have to disrupt now

Anonymous 14w

That…wasn’t my point? My point was that the peaceful element was not “Be polite and they will comply” but rather to show the cruelty of the police and gov so that the average American would side with the Civil Rights Movement

Anonymous 14w

but yes true

Anonymous

#1 14w

Oh that’s really smart of them actually. Especially in a country as exceptionally racist as we are (and even more so back then)

Anonymous

#2 14w

I can definitely see why they didn’t tell us about that or explain it tho🧍 It really does paint the civil rights movement very differently. Less as a “peace and love” type thing and more a strategic decision to let themselves get beat on.

Anonymous

#2 14w

Yeah exactly it’s one of the greatest myths about the Civil Rights movement. Psyop level lol