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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:
#NoKings invokes “non-violence,” a civil rights term, as an HR policy against civil disobedience and direct action. But, that’s not how Dr. King defined the term.
During Jim Crow, the unlawful act of sitting in a “whites only” diner meant others would retaliate against you, often violently. Non-violence from the Civil Rights era is a discipline that showed us how to respond after scalding hot coffee was thrown in our faces.
https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/there-s-no-king-in-no-kings/