Because I'm sick of seeing the same trite "how is this satire" comments every time I post in this community, I've decided to start including the definition for everyone:
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CEOs not schools
Shot CEO's not schools.
No see, if you put that in there you are obviously inciting violence.
"CEOs before Schools" I can stand there with a straight face and talk shit about how Libertarian policies are the best thing for the nation and that liberals waste money on dance and music classes for kids who should be learning a trade...
I want to obviously incite violence tho
bro, you're on lemmy.world, careful now
** Source: Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan, Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict, (New York: Columbia University Press), 2011
I don't think it is possible to go draw conclusions to individual countries and peoples situations from that statistic.
Also the historic lense cannot analyse the advancements in oppression since then. If you go to prison for sitting on a street, like climate activists in the UK and Germany do, you might as well go to prison for smashing something. If you are painted as terrorists by a complicit media, for throwing soup onto the plexiglass in front of an old painting, what is the point in not using means that actually achieve something?
If your adversary is willing to murder you at the earliest convenience like Assad slaughtered his people in Syria or Israelis are slaughtering Palestinians, or well the US healthcare system is letting its people die en masse, nonviolence can only do so much.
Final thought: No campaign is completely violent or nonviolent. You always have both aspects. At the minimum a threat of escalating to violence is necessary for nonviolent campaigns to be successful. Many campaigns fail, because they make it clear from the beginning, that they will not escalate, and so the government just ignores them.
Good news! Those points are factored in already.
https://www.ericachenoweth.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/WCRW-Appendix.pdf
Wow, what an interesting graphic. Maybe the government should start using nonviolent tactics to deal with rapists and murderers. Why lock a child molester in prison when you can do a sit-in or a letter writing campaign?
I didn't realize we were protesting rapists.
That's a really good point. Don't spell it out. Short and sweet makes for a better motto