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A Palestinian man was found dead in a park in the Belgian city of Antwerp with his hands and feet tied, leaving the cause of his death a mystery amid authorities’ suggestion that it may have been a suicide.

“Suicide.”

  • fossilesque@mander.xyzOPEnglish
    444·
    2 months ago

    I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

    Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail

    https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      411·
      2 months ago

      Yes, we are all familiar with the Letter from Birmingham Jail. Congratulations on passing your high school history class.

      Now would you like to answer the nice person’s question? Would you prefer more or less genocide. Very simple.

      And no, I’m not a fucking moderate.

      • Schmoo@slrpnk.netEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Would you prefer more or less genocide.

        That this is the choice our “elected representatives” are asking us to make is sick beyond measure. I actually want to just thank you for cutting the bullshit and just asking the question directly so I can respond to it in the way any sane person should, by rejecting the premise that these are our only options. The answer is no, not more or less, none. I acknowledge that the third option of no genocide is not achievable through electoral means, which is why I support the protests, encampments, and uncommitted delegates.

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          11·
          2 months ago

          Yeah definitely. That would be nice, wouldn’t it?

          But that’s not reality. We have to live in reality. And in reality, we have two choices in November.

          • Schmoo@slrpnk.netEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            Electoral politics are not the only way to change things. In fact, it’s a very poor way, as evidenced by the fact that genocide is now the only option. Every bit of progress that’s been made has been achieved through mass movements; protesting, coalition building, engaging in direct action or civil disobedience… until the politicians are forced to appease them in order to keep hold of their power. Would electoral politics have ended segregation, were it not for the civil rights movement? Would women have been granted the right to vote, were it not for the suffragette movement?

            You would not recognize the reality we’d be living in today if everyone from back then thought like you that all they can do about injustice is vote for the “lesser evil.”

              • Schmoo@slrpnk.netEnglish
                1·
                2 months ago

                Why are you so intent on keeping the conversation about the election? I’m trying to tell you your time and energy is better spent on other things. It’s unproductive to respond to people complaining about how all our candidates support genocide by basically telling them to shut up and choose.