The most successful changes seem to me to always arise when people work from within the system and use existing power structures, and those often happen best in the least confrontational and challenging fashion.
Well, direct confrontation doesn't necessarily mean violent. However, it took a war to end slavery in the United States. It took a war to end the Holocaust in Europe. It took protests and breaking laws to get Civil Rights for people of color in the United States. True, most of my examples come from the United States of which I have the most information. But working within the system is not always the answer--I prefer that method, trust you me--but sometimes you literally have to light a fire under the establishment, rock it, and then fix it. The establishment is there because it works for the people at the top, and sadly, usually they ain't people of color or people without penises or people who don't have two dollars (or pounds or euros or other currency of choice) to rub together.
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Date: 2008-02-27 08:00 pm (UTC)Well, direct confrontation doesn't necessarily mean violent. However, it took a war to end slavery in the United States. It took a war to end the Holocaust in Europe. It took protests and breaking laws to get Civil Rights for people of color in the United States. True, most of my examples come from the United States of which I have the most information. But working within the system is not always the answer--I prefer that method, trust you me--but sometimes you literally have to light a fire under the establishment, rock it, and then fix it. The establishment is there because it works for the people at the top, and sadly, usually they ain't people of color or people without penises or people who don't have two dollars (or pounds or euros or other currency of choice) to rub together.