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what is up with these protesters blocking traffic? how does that stop a ship?
Don't you know? Ghandi, MLK, the Molly Meguires... They all won they're rights by inconveniencing regular people! They definitely never engaged with people that have the actual power to change things.
All of those people did things that if you saw them today you would be saying the same things about them that you're saying about protestors now.
MLK in particular organized a lot of traffic-blocking protests.
Well, let's see, for one you can engage with people in power through inconveniencing "regular people." For two, those three absolutely led movements that contained times of "inconveniencing regular people."
Acting like they didn't actively disrupt the status quo and lives of folks going about their regular business is very dismissive and honestly ignorant.
Three figures which exist to whitewash oppressed people freeing themselves using violence.
After mass murdering and colonizing people, the Brits saw Ghandi. He was so brave and peaceful with his hunger strike that the Brits spontaneously found their humanity and stopped colonizing. The end.