I still generally oppose violent revolution, because it is almost always counter-productive. There have been instances where it has led to good things, but they've been few and far between. Most of the time, the people fomenting it turn out to be even worse monsters than the ones that came before, regardless of the political viewpoint that they are theoretically espousing. Good systems generally come from unsexy, slow, slogs of sausage-making -- this stuff is hard.
But there's a clear and crying need for *change* right now. That shouldn't be in the form of random violence, but I'd like to hope that the sporadic riots are acting as a 2x4 to the head of the body politic, getting its attention. The depth of systemic racism in the US today is horrifying, and folks need to wake up to it.
There's a clear and simple message that needs to be driven home: This Isn't Okay. Casually accepting (or worse, fostering) an order in which a large fraction of the population are routinely oppressed, sometimes violently but even more often more subtly, damages everyone. It needs to stop, and the "all opinions are equal" pseudo-relativism that has been supporting it recently needs to be called out for the nonsense that it is...
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But there's a clear and crying need for *change* right now. That shouldn't be in the form of random violence, but I'd like to hope that the sporadic riots are acting as a 2x4 to the head of the body politic, getting its attention. The depth of systemic racism in the US today is horrifying, and folks need to wake up to it.
There's a clear and simple message that needs to be driven home: This Isn't Okay. Casually accepting (or worse, fostering) an order in which a large fraction of the population are routinely oppressed, sometimes violently but even more often more subtly, damages everyone. It needs to stop, and the "all opinions are equal" pseudo-relativism that has been supporting it recently needs to be called out for the nonsense that it is...