Sera - Well, there's historical civil disobedience and then there's what passes for civil disobedience today. Recruiting Thoreau, Rosa Parks, and MLK into the ranks of those at Columbia is a bit disingenuous, don't you think? Rosa Parks did indeed politely take a seat which she know would elicit her inevitable arrest. MLK's inspiration w…
Sera - Well, there's historical civil disobedience and then there's what passes for civil disobedience today. Recruiting Thoreau, Rosa Parks, and MLK into the ranks of those at Columbia is a bit disingenuous, don't you think? Rosa Parks did indeed politely take a seat which she know would elicit her inevitable arrest. MLK's inspiration was Gandhi's non violent advocacy, which motivated MLK to face beatings, fire hoses and police dogs, evidencing more courage than the entire Columbia cohort put together. Their stock in trade was a comfortable numerical superiority by which they vandalized, bullied, and intimidated, more cowardly than noble.
Sera - Well, there's historical civil disobedience and then there's what passes for civil disobedience today. Recruiting Thoreau, Rosa Parks, and MLK into the ranks of those at Columbia is a bit disingenuous, don't you think? Rosa Parks did indeed politely take a seat which she know would elicit her inevitable arrest. MLK's inspiration was Gandhi's non violent advocacy, which motivated MLK to face beatings, fire hoses and police dogs, evidencing more courage than the entire Columbia cohort put together. Their stock in trade was a comfortable numerical superiority by which they vandalized, bullied, and intimidated, more cowardly than noble.