The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #154345   Message #3621003
Posted By: Joe Offer
21-Apr-14 - 09:10 PM
Thread Name: BS: the demise of the boring thread
Subject: RE: BS: the demise of the boring thread
Steve Shaw says ( 21 Apr 14 - 08:47 PM) Accommodation with bigots is not just useless, it's a bloody sight worse than that.

So, Steve, I take it that you see combat as the only way to achieve justice. I side with Gandhi and Martin Luther King, who saw true strength only in peaceable approaches. It seems to me that real progress is achieved only when one works with the other side, not attempting to denigrate or destroy the other.

You believe in combat.
I believe in peace - without "accommodation" or backing down.
Violence took over after the deaths of Gandhi and King. What did it accomplish?

-Joe Offer-