The same country that teaches you for a dozen years how fucking badass the founding fathers were for standing up to injustice with a violent revolution, how America saved the world by killing every Nazi and nuking Japan twice to win WW2, will turn around and tell you violence isn’t the answer.
I mean it certainly seemed like a central theme to those endeavors. We didn’t peacefully protest independence from the British. There wasn’t a drum circle to stop hitler.
We are a nation born of violence, steeped in violence, and our government and corporations practice such mundane everyday violence against us we’ve become completely numb to it.
The same country that teaches you for a dozen years how fucking badass the founding fathers were for standing up to injustice with a violent revolution, how America saved the world by killing every Nazi and nuking Japan twice to win WW2, will turn around and tell you violence isn’t the answer.
I mean it certainly seemed like a central theme to those endeavors. We didn’t peacefully protest independence from the British. There wasn’t a drum circle to stop hitler.
We are a nation born of violence, steeped in violence, and our government and corporations practice such mundane everyday violence against us we’ve become completely numb to it.
Rare footage of americans “peacefully resisting” the british