Donc il ne regrette pas ses propos, il regrette qu’on soit au courant de ses propos.

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Catafalque mentioned, thread improved.

The one band whose concerts I never miss.

Glad to see other fans in the wild.

We’re talking overt racism and genocide denial here 😂 enough to disgust even a rather conservative community, but you do you.

Just so yall know who some of you are agreeing with, this person managed to get permanently booted off the !france@jlai.lu community which is very VERY tolerant of differing opinions compared to the average fediverse community. I remember them, they kept defending racist news outlets for no good reason and using far right talking points and dogwhistles (while claiming to be a leftist), until the mods got tired of their constant denial.

Modlog (and this post’s comment section) shows some genocide denial too, no shit they don’t feel welcome in some communities…

One of the points of moving to Lemmy, for me at least, was to get away from people like them.

Ask any product of the public school system about protest and they’ll […] start babbling on about the most PG version of MLK and/or Gandhi imaginable

Case in point

Well yes, the issue is precisely with what you are taught in school vs what is in history books.

Gandhi was the culmination of centuries of violent anti-colonial struggle. While he was doing non-violent resistance in the wake of a war, the HSRA and Anushilan Samiti acted as violent threats to incentivize the UK to work with Gandhi or risk more terrorist acts, while various extremely violent soldier mutinies weakened the british grip on the country.

MLK only worked because of the implications. The panthers, urban uprisings, Malcolm X were setting the country ablaze. MLK’s platform was that there were two options, dealing with him or dealing with the rioters. The white house had no choice due to the scale of the riots and the threat of an escalation in violent tactics (panthers were starting to show up with big guns).

In both cases, what won was the diversity of tactics. The non-violent face of those events are all that’s taught in school, but the full picture of those movements can be found in the history books. You are in no position to be dismissive of others when you are the person in the comic.

There’s good and bad ways of giving feedback.

Yours is very good.

Other people’s, often not so much.

I too would have an easier time achieving major changes through non violent means if I had my jojo stand Malcom X standing menacingly out of sight behind me at all times threatening more violence and more uprisings if my peaceful demands were not met.

Juicing your own bones in public?!

Who would do such a crude thing.

Rude, indecent, disgusting, straight up uncouth.

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I think you’re right, much better that way.

Thanks, useful advice on writing/pacing is rare.

Well I’m french, in my country strikes are considered violent actions.

As is always the case, it’s the oppressors not the oppressed that set the level of violence.

You don’t get to decide whether your actions will be violent or not, it’s all about how the state will react to them. If they start sending riot police at you with orders to be as brutal as possible, legislating against your strikes, sending organizers to jail, killing some of your protesters, the non violent aspect might collapse quite fast. Or at least that’s what happens when we organize mass strikes or student protests in France, and we have a pretty big history of that :)

Pretty much everything I draw is observational satire, so the odds someone else has already drawn something on the same topic are pretty high yes. Comics communities are full of accidentally (or not so accidentally) derivative content. It’s the nature of the medium.

Ever heard of the HSRA? Anushilan Samiti? The post-WW2 mutinies? All the other sources of pressure by indian nationalists and independence fighters that allowed Gandhi to exist as a credible threat while staying peaceful?

Sure, and where does diversity of tactics rank?

It’s rarely one or the other, eg. Suffragettes demonstrations were made much more threatening by the bombing campaigns that were happening in parallel, Gandhi was made much more threatening by the HSRA campaigns, MLK wouldn’t have achieved jack without urban uprisings and the black panthers turning up the pressure in the background, etc.

I kept some bone healing juice in the fridge, just in case.

Help yourself.