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Diversity of Tactics

"Neither civilized reason nor Christian love would cause any of those people to treat you as they presumably wanted to be treated; only the fear of your power to retaliate would cause them to do that, or to seem to do it, which was (and is) good enough." – James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

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In the Wake of Baltimore, Are Scholars Facing Reality?

Over the years, Francis Fox Piven, one of the more celebrated social movement historians in America, has made a remarkable assertion: Most US social scientists have a severe blind spot to the use of force by social justice movements.  Due to sympathy towards these movements – and an aspiration to the undisputed moral high ground […]

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Misunderstanding the Civil Rights Movement and Diversity of Tactics

It’s gotten to be a pattern on the Left.  When Black protest erupts into insurrection, as it did in Ferguson and Baltimore, most liberals and white radicals express empathy for the cathartic release of anger, but urge the oppressed that this is not the way.  This is “not strategic,” says the leftist concern-troll.  This is “what […]

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