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No good activism

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Carl Beijer
Jun 26, 2018
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Was catching up on some reading about restaurant protests, which deserves to be quoted at length:

We can easily imagine scenarios in which private nonviolent action could pressure bigots into changing their racial policies.

But we don’t need to imagine it. We can consult history…It happened not out of the goodness of the racists’ hearts – they had to be d…

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