[rithdmc]

Why do people assume revolutionary action must be violent? Emmeline Pankhurst will want to have words with them.

[Pay08]

Have you seen people?

[rithdmc]

> You really need to read up on your history.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47888542

[Pay08]

The suffragette movement was hardly a revolution in the traditional sense.

[rithdmc]

Giving so many people the ability to vote was absolutely a fundamental shift in the social, political, or societal order, so is absolutely a traditional revolution. This is just the 'no true scotsman' argument.