• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    1 year ago

    I remember how Nelson Mandela fought against apartheid by going through the correct systems and then apartheid ended! Problem solved!

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      1 year ago

      Actually, Mandela did protest apartheid using the system. After all, he was a lawyer. But after decades of that didn’t work, he and the ANC decided that violence was appropriate against an opponent that did not view them as fully human.

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        1 year ago

        I think that’s kind of my point. Going through the correct systems didn’t end apartheid. Fighting back did.

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          To be fair, a shocking number of people don’t actually know that he and the ANC did eventually adopt guerrila warfare/terrorism for a time to achieve their ends. I blame the kid-gloves treatment that most discussion of apartheid gets, usually to kids, and the fact that it usually never gets mentioned again to adults.