Comment on I don't think we should be rooting for the Bell Riots but the pin is funny

optissima@possumpat.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• bigfoot@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That is a very machivellian attitude. I don’t believe that hurting people is justified, even if it were a shortcut to utopia, which it’s not.

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  • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    All of human political activity boils down to violence. If pacifism were a legitimate strategy then we wouldn’t be in our current situation.

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    • bigfoot@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I didn’t say anything about pacifism, but I also disagree with your proposition equating violence and politics. Violence is a breakdown of politics. Politics, almost definitionally, is how a people settle disputes without violence.

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      • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Pacifism is an ideology centered on political change through nonviolence. Maybe you didn’t explicitly say it, but you might as well have. Can you provide a source on violence being a result of political breakdown and not intrinsic to politics itself? How do current regimes uphold their power?

        Politics is, more or less, how decisions are made in groups. Making a decision doesn’t preclude violence. Wars are political and their entire point is violence. Colonialism was foundational to the politics of the last 3+ centuries and it was incredibly violent. Besides vibes, what evidence do you have to support the claim that politics aren’t violent?

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  • optissima@possumpat.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I believe that people should defend their right to exist.

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    • bigfoot@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I will engage with you in the context of your original proposition but I will not engage with Gish Galloping.

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      • optissima@possumpat.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s only Gish galloping if you edit your original message so they appear disconnected. You’d said all hurting was wrong, and my question was a direct followup to that.

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  • Odinkirk@lemmygrad.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nonviolence is an inherently privileged position in the modern context. Besides the fact that the typical pacifist is quite clearly white and middle class, pacifism as an ideology comes from a privileged context. It ignores that violence is already here; that violence is an unavoidable, structurally integral part of the current social hierarchy; and that it is people of color who are most affected by that violence. Pacifism assumes that white people who grew up in the suburbs with all their basic needs met can counsel oppressed people, many of whom are people of color, to suffer patiently under an inconceivably greater violence, until such time as the Great White Father is swayed by the movement’s demands or the pacifists achieve that legendary “critical mass. – How Nonviolence Serves the State

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  • fern@lemmy.autism.place ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    OP looking like Image

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  • aniki@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Chickenshit.

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