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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange ("Jess👾") wrote:
It's also important to note that to authoritarians, they view literally any sort of opposition to their absolute power and control as violence, and thus see the use of extreme physical violence as completely justified in response.
Making them uncomfortable and saying things they don't like and treating them like they treat you - especially by "classesc they consider "lower" is considered "social violence".
Strikes and boycotts are "economic violence", because they are "owed" your labor and money.
Petty vandalism, occupying a public space, creating an inconvenience by blocking a roadway, being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or assisting one of "their women" in getting bodily autonomy is "Property violence"
Physically resisting aggression and abuse is violence
Fash will happily conflate any and all of these into justification for extreme physical violence, imprisonment, and murder. So splitting hairs about what is "non-violent" and "violent" protest is only something used by neoliberals to push marginalized people back into compliance.
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