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Cornelius (corneliushecker@mastodon.lol)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Jul-2022 18:46:27 UTC Cornelius

Non-violence is a red herring. When the world is violent to you, being non-violent doesn't not prevent violence.
It simply guarantees the outcome of the violence imposed upon you.
Violence and non-violence both are tools, to be applied when strategically useful.

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- bs2 (bsmall2@mstdn.jp)'s status on Thursday, 14-Jul-2022 15:07:53 UTC bs2
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  @CorneliusHecker Ans sometimes you just don't have the patience or courage to be Non-Violent the way Ghandi thought it should work. Arundhati Roy in "Walking with the Comrades"? talks about how non-violence might not work without and audience. People in the jungles getting massacred in their villages might not have the option... Norman Finkelstein's talk about Gandhi on DN! has stayed with me for years.
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    > Gandhi says, “Nonviolence means you’re supposed to march into the line of fire you’re supposed to march in the line of fire, smilingly and cheerfully, and get yourself blown to bits.” “Don’t be a coward and go to jail, because you’re afraid to get killed. Don’t use jail as a pretext to get away from getting killed. You better” “You better get your skulls cracked. Otherwise, I don’t want to hear from you.” - https://www.democracynow.org/2012/6/5/part_2_norman_finkelstein_on_what_gandhi_says_about_nonviolence_resistance_and_courage #NormanFinkelstein on #Gandhi on #NonViolence #courage
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