It's also worth remembering that non-violence doesn't mean no blood will be shed but that you won't be the one doing the bloodshed. Non-violence works when someone able to intervene cares about your suffering.
There has been a lot of talk about "post-truth" in the media in recent years. Suffering works as a rallying cry only if it can't be reframed as violence. "Yeah, the peaceful protest was violently suppressed by the police but the police says that crimes were committed by the protestors so they can't have been all that peaceful".
The greatest trick the elites ever pulled was getting the media to convince the general public that violence somehow invalidates the legitimacy of a movement or cause.
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 14.8 ms ] threadThere has been a lot of talk about "post-truth" in the media in recent years. Suffering works as a rallying cry only if it can't be reframed as violence. "Yeah, the peaceful protest was violently suppressed by the police but the police says that crimes were committed by the protestors so they can't have been all that peaceful".