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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Protests actually weren't MLKs strongest tool, and he himself admits it. Getting arrested for doing something and then challenging it in court now that you have standing was his biggest tool. Most of the protests were just a means to get arrested. It's revisionist history that says it was the protests specifically that worked because it's better to emphasize the tactics that didnt work than to point out what actually did and risk a reoccurrence.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Can you provide any sources to back up what you're saying?

It sounds nice, but when you mention 'revisionist history' without providing sources I'm immediately skeptical.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

https://www.thefire.org/news/protests-supreme-court-how-civil-rights-movement-advanced-first-amendment-legal-protections

I'm not saying protests didn't have a use. Just that their main use was overshadowed. Peacefully sitting in somewhere didn't do much. It was the legal things it lead to that did something. Without the legal precedents set, it would have just been brushed back under the rug eventually. You need to incite change, not just annoyance.