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Augustus Caesar
@augustuscaesar
Every once in a while I like to remind my homies that civility is unamerican (they disagree). We have legit been the most grotesque & capitalist country from the start. The only issue is that as of late we’ve a more educated and we think we’ve left that behind. But that’s in all of our DNA as Americans.
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zoo
@zoo
we also birthed industrial unions tho. what do you mean by civility?
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Augustus Caesar
@augustuscaesar
Whenever there’s a protest (especially those which turn violent) most people will say, “it doesn’t take violence.” But every major issue we have solved required violence. We beg for civility but it never works in America.
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zoo
@zoo
what about the civil (black) rights movement? that was pretty "civil"
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Augustus Caesar
@augustuscaesar
Black American Rights Movements weren’t civil. I mean the Black Panthers carried guns just to deliver free lunch to kids. MLK was elevated because he let people spit on him (I would never). Malcolm X received much less attention than him because he was more violent. The powers wanted a civil movement. Black American Rights technically started in Jim Crow which was very violent. Let’s not forget Tulsa. Black Americans had been fighting from 1870 - 1965 and the best Congress could do was provide an inclusive rights act. Lynching wasn’t even made a federal hate crime until 2022. Hate crimes against black Americans were largely overlooked. There were many acts of violence in the south that aren’t public knowledge, both ways.
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zoo
@zoo
yes, but most of these examples were threats to, not by, black people. was there an atomic bomb moment that made the legislative surrender? what (threat of) violence achieved the movement's ends?
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Augustus Caesar
@augustuscaesar
Black Americans were invited into capitalism finally in the 80s and anarchosocialist (black panthers etc) lost their control. MLK was the last person who had a platform for Black Americans and I’m of the belief that he was killed before he shifted to anarchosocialism himself. There were many communities in the south which were safe from racial violence because they were very well armed. I find the educated black American, on average, hates guns like most the American educated. What we forget is the post reconstruction massacres only happened where black Americans were unarmed. Where the threat of retaliation was most sure, little violence occurred.
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zoo
@zoo
i agree w this view of mlk btw. seems obvious izo
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Augustus Caesar
@augustuscaesar
1,000% If he would have told black Americans to shift to anarchosocialism, it would’ve been too much for America 😂
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