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• john_lemmy@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Arguably not in the recent past, but let us not forget that the suffragettes were very committed protesters. They did more than just organize symbolic protests though. They also carried out bombings and arson campaigns and one of them ended up cutting Winston Churchill’s face with a dogwhip.

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  • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Amongst other things, the Suffragettes attempted to bury 200 postal workers under the rubble of the biggest sorting office in London, attempted to flood a town by blowing up a canal embankment, left many bombs on commuter trains (now they have a TfL line named after them lol), attempted to kill the Prime Minister by burning down the packed theatre he was in, tried again by burning down his house, attacked MPs for being Jewish, and succeeded in murdering sailors in an attack on a naval dockyard.

    And then much of the top echelons of the Suffragettes went on to be key members in British fascism, including one who became Mussolini’s pen-pal, another who became the registered owner of the bank account for the BUF, and another who was actually too anti-Semitic for Oswald Moseley, and denied the Holocaust happened because “there’s so many of them still around”.

    The Suffragettes are always a bad example because they utterly failed in their stated aims (the height of their campaign of destruction ended up one of the years with the lowest insurance payouts in British history), went on to say and do horrific things, and there is a question as to how much of it was true commitment to a cause and how much it was people who got off on the violence.

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    • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean, half of the British population was living in a state of slavery. That is worth killing people over.

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The Suffragettes are certainly a good counter-example. I didn’t mean that people haven’t been protesting, just that I can’t remember any recent protests where the government gave in and made concessions.

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    • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The government didn’t make concessions to the Suffragettes either. The WSPU was a total failure.

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      • ewo@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        ? They got the women’s vote

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• reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  London really showed up for the Palestine protests a couple weeks ago

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• njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Basically not since the 18th century really.

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  • Bloomcole@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ask your parents about the miners

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    • HumanPenguin@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They were far from effective.

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      • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Which is the point, the last time the UK protested in a big way people were brutall masacred by the government.

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  • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They used to be glorious though.

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