Interesting perspective, Taraz, about begging slave masters for power. But, I will politely disagree. Riots are messy, but they do work. For example, it took three days of protests in Minneapolis and across the USA (over the murder of yet another innocent black man, at the hands of racist, violent cops) to actually get the officer responsible arrested and, just now, Derek Chauvin has been charged with 3rd-degree murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd.
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And there will be the next and the next and the next. How many will die globally before actual change happens? The punishment of the officer responsible doesn't change the system. With systemic problems, the system needs to be restructured so it works.
Why should their need to be protests to get a murderer arrested? What is the end goal?
The end goal is increased awareness and, like everything else, this happens gradually. Otherwise, if we turn away because we say this is how it is, or we can't do anything about it, then we are accomplices to the systemic injustice. By association, a silly example: I think of food labels and all the unhealthy things people did not know goes into their system. With better informed and engaged customers, they were able to demand and receive more. It's the same with civil servants obligated to clean up their act.
Today, is JFK's birthday, here's a quote of his that seems apt: Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.
Obesity epidemics, depression on the fast track, drug addiction and social disconnection... we have never had access to more information than we have now and it has never been more accessible - yet, look at us.
We are the violent ones, we choose the inevitable daily.
!ENGAGE 25 ?
On one hand you seem so optimistic, Taraz, and open to helping others and yet this is isn't the first time I come up against your cynicism...
I will not argue, further, since that does not help.
Peace
Optimism and cynicism has nothing to do with this. Negotiating more comfortable conditions in a slave camp doesn't change much.
ENGAGEtokens.