jdreyer wrote on Mar 12, 2018, 14:34:Prez wrote on Mar 12, 2018, 12:51:
Activism in my opinion is always pointless at best, and destructive at worst.
Exactly. Martin Luther King and Gandhi should have just stayed home.
Ah yes the Ghandi and King counterpoint. And with biting sarcasm - how cute! You know I started typing out a lengthy response (as this is a topic I've debated extensively in the past) but then i realized this really isnt the place and honestly I just dont have the fire for debate like I used to. Suffice it to say that though both were great men with great messages, even their movements were co-opted. I know it's never a popular opinion but in MLK's case specifically, despite all of his efforts, the civil rights movement today looks nothing like what he intended it to be just going by his speeches, writings, and so on. That either movement was able to accomplish anything at all is a testament to the man not the movement. Without the men both sputtered.
"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far."
"Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality."
"Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality."
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