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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I think that both of your examples only worked because there was a contemporary, more militant version of the same movement, and the peaceful protestors were seen as a more palatable alternative.

As police and military units cracked down on militant revolutionaries/protestors, the people remaining in those movements moved toward more non-violent methods just as mainstream perception grew to see non-violent protest as more reasonable.

So the non-violent movement was pivotal in both cases, but I didn't think non-violent protest accomplishes either goal on its own.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I think you might be right, yes. The result of Gandhi's speech to the judge which came with no real backing of a massive movement behind it, was "cool story bro" and prison.