their favorite besties, the advocates of nonviolence who are typically working from deeply suspect datasets.

I’m not endorsing violence. I’m simply citing the history of its many impacts on society. It’s a lovely aspiration to think that humans can achieve change peacefully. And that should always be the tactic of first resort. But facts are facts. It rarely drives the political action and social change that violence.

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