ID: photo of Martin Luther King Jr. waving at the crowd during the March on Washington, on it is his quote: “He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”

  • Chakravanti@monero.town
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    9 hours ago

    Fuck that. Protesting today ain’t what it was in his day. There ain’t much sanity left anymore and don’t matter how you try to stand let alone move.

    • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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      2 hours ago

      They had dogs let loose on them.

      They were beaten.

      They were sprayed with water cannons capable of taking you off your feet and throwing your body into whatever hard object stops it.

      They were arrested.

      They were lynched.

      It was not easy then and it won’t be easy now.

    • ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      3 hours ago

      So… Don’t protest* evil. Got it. 🙄

      (*on a more serious note, you having a narrow and wilfully ignorant view of what protesting actually means doesn’t change the fact that not protesting evil makes you complicit with it)