thread: 2005-05-16 : Violence
On 2005-05-17, pete_darby wrote:
Ed:
You know, if it was pretty much anyone else but Ron, i'd say that he'd confused violence with assertiveness or confrontation.
But Ron's much more careful than that, so unless he's deliberately describing passive resistance and MLK's marches as violent (which I have seen espoused before, by no less a man than, errm, Mick Jagger), I'm with you on calling bullshit.
Though no mother Theresa without machine guns is true. Because she was instrumental in papering over the cracks of calcutta's problems. However the fuck many people she treated, she did not one damn thing to challenge the society that put those people in need of her hospitals.
