Yeah, this is a huge (purposeful) revision of the history of change and progress. Disruption is an integral part of advocating for change, sometimes violent sometimes not. If you can be ignored, you will be.
But when the dust settles, the people in power say "we're really doing this because of all of the kind, non-disruptive people. In fact, this would have happened faster without all of those pesky disruptive protests." And the news and the history books and the biopics all start to reflect that narrative until people have forgotten the relationship between disruption and change.
And see, I haven't heard of environmentalists blocking traffic in years, and look at all the climate progress we've made recently! Also BLM hasn't had big protests since COVID, and look at all this federal police reform these last 3ish years without muddying up the works! Amazing how much gets done when those annoying rioters get out of the way of the movement /s
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u/Preeng Jul 28 '26
I just want to say that MLK never advocated for "peaceful protest". He specifically said "non-violent protest".
Protests are supposed to be disruptive and grind society to a halt until demands are met.