America

[Jero]

Really though, what changed?

[CBA]

Really though, what changed?

C

[devnulljp]

how about some cock in my ass

Thanks for the offer, but uh, no thanks.

Says the guy with the V for Vendetta avatar etc.

Actually, it was Bill Hicks (the first time round).

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4CQ_1GWn4w[/youtube]

On topic...Obama's approval ratings are gonna sky rocket because of this.

I doubt it. The Teabaggers and birthers and fox news will figure a way to twist it and turn it against him anyway. I hope you're right though.

Remember how disgusted everyone was when you saw those crowds cheering in the Middle East because of 9/11?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrM0dAFsZ8k[/youtube]



”I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy.” <---- Nice but fake quotation wrongly attributed to Martin Luther King, Jr.

[SPACERITUAL]

how about some cock in my ass

Thanks for the offer, but uh, no thanks.

Says the guy with the V for Vendetta avatar etc.

Actually, it was Bill Hicks (the first time round).

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4CQ_1GWn4w[/youtube]

On topic...Obama's approval ratings are gonna sky rocket because of this.

I doubt it. The Teabaggers and birthers and fox news will figure a way to twist it and turn it against him anyway. I hope you're right though.

Remember how disgusted everyone was when you saw those crowds cheering in the Middle East because of 9/11?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrM0dAFsZ8k[/youtube]



”I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

[magiclawnchair]

”I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

[dubkitty]

and what happened to MLK? he got shot. nonviolence only works against Anglo-Americans with Anglo-American morality.

[magiclawnchair]

if i get shot, i get shot.

[Big Mon]

patriotism=one hulking and immense"meh" from me.

[CBA]

Really though, what changed?

C

Post Of The Year.



C

[peps1]

and what happened to MLK? he got shot. nonviolence only works against Anglo-Americans with Anglo-American morality.

What about Gandhi?

[Fuzzy Thoughts]

I this thread.

[dubkitty]

What about Gandhi?

nonviolence only works against Anglo-Americans with Anglo-American morality.

if Gandhi had tried nonviolent resistance against the Nazis--hell, if he'd tried it against Pinochet--he'd have wound up in an unmarked grave. the success of nonviolent resistance depends on making the oppressor feel guilt, and you can't feel guilt if you're a sociopath or a dedicated ideologue. you can't defeat naked evil with love...evil will cut your head off before you get to the second verse of "Kum Ba Ya."

[devnulljp]

and what happened to MLK? he got shot. nonviolence only works against Anglo-Americans with Anglo-American morality.

Did I misread that or did you just nullify your whole point? MLK used nonviolence against Anglo-Americans with Anglo-American morality and they shot him.
Ghandi used nonviolence against Anglos, and some nationalistic Hindu nutter shot him for not hating on the Mulsims enough.
Malcolm X used violent rhetoric against Anglo-Americans with Anglo-American morality and some Nation of Islam nutters shot him.

Doesn't make sense.

Nonviolence probably wouldn't have worked against Saddam Hussein or Augusto Pinochet though.

[unownunown]

just because MLK and ghandi got shot doesn't mean that they failed.

[dubkitty]

King used nonviolent resistance to win victories for civil rights in the earlier part of the 60s; the civil rights legislation that ended segregation, ensured voting rights, etc. was passed by 1965. King was killed in 1968. in a historical sense it's somewhat inaccurate to say that King "used nonviolence...and they shot him." this was true in other cases; e.g. James Meredith was shot and wounded during an actual march. i get a little fussy about historical points is all. carry on.