Originally Posted By u/Brian_Ghoshery At 2025-04-22 12:16:17 PM | Source


  • polysexualstick@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    On the topic of violent vs. non-violent: What this statistic completely fails to take into account is that violent protests on average have much more radical demands/goals. So their demands are much less likely to be met from the start because of the nature of the demand.

    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Yeah, violence happens because you’ve pushed those people WAAAYYYYYY further.

      This post is a classic case of correlation is not causation.

    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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      Also: what does success mean? Often times, non-violent protests are met with delay tactics and empty compromises until they’ve died down, only for the protested thing to happen anyway. It could be that the 26% have a much larger percentage of their goals met.