i'm getting responses on my toot along the lines of "Why not do things [...] in the spirit of Gahndi ?"
(Literally how they spelt it)
Lemme just use a quote from Kwame Ture to show why that isn't a viable strategy for fighting against injustice in America:
“Dr. King's policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That's very good. He only made one fallacious assumption: In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.”
@thornyonmain Ah these are my favourite scholars on India's struggle for independence: people that misspell Gandhi.
I bet they have not heard names like Subhash Chandra Bose or Bhagat Singh or Aurobindo Ghosh or any of the princely states that fought the British, all of which made colonialists' life very inconvenient. India's independence did not happen because the British suddenly developed a "conscience".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_movement_for_Indian_independence
Also Gandhi was an ass sometimes, towards a lot of people.
