Due to sever technology issues, I was unable to comment directly on this blog post, but this comment is in regards to:
https://comm3625fa22.blogspot.com/2022/10/blog-post-3_0.html?lr=1&m=1
I very much agree that the events following George Floyd’s murder by police connect to this idea of uncivility and how reason and civility within the frameworks of domination are not the same thing. One counter often offered to destructive protest is the idea to at people should “protest peacefully,” one thing which this argument misses or is purposefully ignorant of is that a peaceful protest is designed to show the protesting group as unthreatening and willing to endure suffering and humiliation. The request for “civility” in protest often rather represents the claim that protestors should not fight against systems of oppression and power, but rather endure their assaults, as not to discomfort those in positions of power and/or societal priority.
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