“Political power grows from the costume of a dancing frog”

Mao Zedong if he’d been a brainrotted Liberal.

Well yes, the issue is precisely with what you are taught in school vs what is in history books.

Gandhi was the culmination of centuries of violent anti-colonial struggle. While he was doing non-violent resistance in the wake of a war, the HSRA and Anushilan Samiti acted as violent threats to incentivize the UK to work with Gandhi or risk more terrorist acts, while various extremely violent soldier mutinies weakened the british grip on the country.

MLK only worked because of the implications. The panthers, urban uprisings, Malcolm X were setting the country ablaze. MLK’s platform was that there were two options, dealing with him or dealing with the rioters. The white house had no choice due to the scale of the riots and the threat of an escalation in violent tactics (panthers were starting to show up with big guns).

In both cases, what won was the diversity of tactics. The non-violent face of those events are all that’s taught in school, but the full picture of those movements can be found in the history books. You are in no position to be dismissive of others when you are the person in the comic.

Remind me how that King thing turned out, again?

“You can’t negotiate with a tiger when your head is in it’s mouth.” -Winston Churchill on Appeasement Strategey

That wouldn’t have worked 50 to 70 years earlier though, they would have just been massacred. Those were post ww2 for a reason.

General strikes that do real economic damage would work. They would round up the leaders and prosecute them as terrorist each time.

“So love me love me love me, I’m a liberal”

I disagree that Gandhi was non-violent, as his action was self-inflicted violence. Starving himself would have caused irreparable damage to his body, and really is almost akin to self mutilation. King I would agree with, but I would also point out that overall that almost 80 years after his death, minority groups still experience many forms of systemic racisms. He pushed the needle, but not very far in my opinion.