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Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social |
Today we look back positively on the lunch counter sit ins of 1960-1, as products of a movement that understood how to protest “the right way.” The overwhelming majority of Americans in 1961, however, disagreed. Their contemporaries thought those disruptive students were doing it all wrong.
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Nobody Ever
@frambley1.bsky.social
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Good thing there wasn't any type pf backlash at the time. amirite?
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Seth Cotlar
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
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We could do this with the anti-Vietnam War protests as well. They were profoundly unpopular at the time. Now we look back at those “annoying kids” and wonder why more politicians weren’t listening to them.
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Are You Being Detained
@sailbarque.bsky.social
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Neither here nor there, but I do appreciate how the civil rights-era protesters never felt the need to wear masks like SEAL Team Six operatives or police thugs. For me, there's just an extra connection on a human level to a cause when I see someone willing to put their face out there for a cause.
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E-Something
@nullinterface.bsky.social
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There's a demo out there that's going to get angry at any form of protest / structural criticism / disruption
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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat
@shaidorsai.bsky.social
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Hey, I made that point yesterday and was told that I was equating Hamas and MLK. Gotta say, they had me wriggling in the crushing grip of their irrefutable logic!
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Voters Are Our Last Hope
@theprestige.bsky.social
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Hmm, if only there was a way for major media outlets to get their hands on this info ...
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Arraial
@arraial.bsky.social
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Integrating Negroes is a strange concept in the Deep South. After all, African-Americans have lived there much longer than most whites.
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Big DeVito Energy
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bettybarcode
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Another illustration of the principle that the only proper place to protest is in the past
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