by Luther Blissett » Sun Feb 10, 2013 12:52 pm
I am, as always, a pacifist and philosophically dedicated to anti-violence. I'm disappointed that he's chosen to murder innocent women and children. I'd like to think that nothing could ever drive me to any level of violence, much less killing.
However, pacifism is a privileged stance, as I have recently learned. I used to believe that non-violence was really the key to resolving the issue of institutional violence. A white, privileged male imposing his pacifism on, say, a gay Native American woman whose life is under threat is in itself almost a form of violence. I've been told that as a white, privileged male that I have no right to try to impress tactics of non-violence upon oppressed peoples, because issues are much less likely to be a matter of life or death for the white privileged male.
I don't think that personal pacifism is diametrically opposed to honoring the life and actions of someone like Sitting Bull. I'll keep talking about pacifism but it should continue to be aimed foremost at elite power structures.
The Rich and the Corporate remain in their hundred-year fever visions of Bolsheviks taking their stuff - JackRiddler
