| ▲ | Balgair an hour ago | |
Tomas Rick's Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement 1954-68 should be required reading at this point https://www.amazon.com/Waging-Good-War-Military-1954-1968/dp... Ricks kinda beats a dead horse as he goes over and over again that non-violence is not unaggressive. It is typically quite militant when done well. Non violence is a tactic, one that is typically better at achieving results than violence, as it tends to change the other side that is violent to adjust down to non violence as well. Like getting a drunk to be quieter by whispering to them (Note: that is a poor analogy). Rick's book is just so very good and my poor internet comment can't possibly do it justice. He convinced me that the Civil Rights movement is so big because it gave the US a brand new tool in conflicts. It's not just violence or submission anymore. | ||
| ▲ | mrhottakes an hour ago | parent [-] | |
Your "poor internet comment" got me to check the book out, so I'd say it's a pretty good comment! | ||