![]() ![]() Pacifism assumes that white people who grew up in the suburbs with all their basic needs met can counsel oppressed people, many of whom are people of color, to suffer patiently under an inconceivably greater violence, until such time as the Great White Father is swayed by the movement’s demands or the pacifists achieve that legendary “critical mass.” Nonviolence declares that the American Indians could have fought off Columbus, George Washington, and all the other genocidal butchers with sit-ins that Crazy Horse, by using violent resistance, became part of the cycle of violence, and was “as bad as” Custer. It ignores that violence is already here that violence is an unavoidable, structurally integral part of the current social hierarchy and that it is people of color who are most affected by that violence. ![]() “Besides the fact that the typical pacifist is quite clearly white and middle class, pacifism as an ideology comes from a privileged context. ![]()
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