People on this website genuinely believe that acting in self defense is a violent act.
The Black Panthers were not a violent organization and the framing of them as such is government propaganda. They acted in self defense and using them to promote violence as the only form of direct action ignores the most important good that they created through the uplifting of local communities via things like soup kitchens and after school programs
Okay so I am going to combine these tags, I somewhat agree but my feeling on violence is that the difference between self defense and violent direct action, is the idea of intention, violent direct action is taken when someone begins the action with the intention of harming a human life, such as a bombing, violent revolution, or assassination. I consider self defense to be nonviolent because it is a response to the harm brought upon you, not seeking to cause harm for the sake of harm in the name of a goal.
