Quote from: Serverlan on August 08, 2015, 04:37:04 AM
Yes, it's all about dignity. Dignity to vote and dignity to expect not to be discriminated against just living your life. It's not an either or thing; both the big and the small issues are worth fighting for. It is really possible to walk and chew gum.
But they're not the same, and have to be fought differently, with the smaller ones chosen more wisely and best handled indirectly without beaucrats getting involved. It's about the optics and narrative, and doing things in a way where you unequivocally appear to be the morally superior party. This requires one to think strategically, and consider 2nd and 3rd order effects.
Also, this is what real discrimination looks like:
"the Citizens' Councils used economic tactics against African Americans whom they considered as supportive of desegregation and voting rights, or for belonging to the NAACP, or even suspected of being activists; the tactics included "calling in" the mortgages of blacks, denying loans and business credit, pressing employers to fire them, and boycotting black-owned businesses.[10] In some cities, the Councils published lists of names of NAACP supporters and signers of anti-segregation petitions in local newspapers in order to encourage economic retaliation.[11] For instance, in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1955, the Citizens' Council published in the local paper the names of 53 signers of a petition for school integration. Soon afterward, the petitioners lost their jobs and had their credit cut off.[12] As Charles Payne puts it, the Councils operated by "unleashing a wave of economic reprisals against anyone, Black or white, seen as a threat to the status quo."[7] Their targets included black professionals such as teachers."
