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by x220 2809 days ago
No, the civil rights movement almost always was at the mercy of those willing to commit violence and kick people out of businesses. Your ideas about how people can kick you out of businesses and punch you if they don't like what you're saying benefit only those with power.
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>Your ideas about how people can kick you out of businesses and punch you if they don't like what you're saying benefit only those with power.

They're not my ideas, and they don't benefit only those in power. If that were true, no protest, union or revolutionary movement of any kind would ever have been successful. The paradox of tolerance[0] is a real thing.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance