Readers, the reason this post is coming to you so late is largely due to the fact that yours truly, in a rare moment of weakness, opted to keep working on his latest installment of “Explaining American Politics To Americans”. The subject was going to be Democrats, and as the post stands currently, it’s just too…
…well, mean.
Even by my standards.
And this is coming from a guy who has likened certain social groups the human equivalent of cancer…
Now that’s left me with the question of what to cover instead, and as I was browsing the internet, I came across these two images:
Old, definitely, but it reminded me of a topic that I’ve touched on a lot without ever actually covering.
Peaceful Protest
…or is that even a fair thing to call it?
I mean, we praise peaceful dissent practically to the exclusion of all other forms of protest. We idolize figures like Martin Luther King Jr. while reviling folks like Malcolm X or Huey P. Newton, largely on the grounds that they advocated self defense.
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