How Civil Resistance Can Take Down Authoritarian Regimes
Chris sits down with Dr Peter Ackerman to talk about why nonviolent resistance may actually be more effective than violence when facing an authoritarian regime.
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Comments (7)
Hey Chris! Do you think it is possible for there to be freedom for Falun Gong practitioners in China without regime change?
I think that'd be pretty hard. The regime would need to acknowledge what it did to stop it and that could unstable the regime.
@China Uncensored: Are these guys from that center Ackerman mentions: are they Soros-funded???... I smell a rat!
Generally speaking, "nonviolence" only works on people who are already mostly moral people. This guy is just virtue signaling if he is going to claim otherwise.
I guess we need to dig into the actual data
But if you are fighting the Chinese government, or Stalin, or Khmer Rouge, then you are stupid to think you can "guilt" them into getting your way.
I think you have to use whatever is effective, but this guy is deluded if he thinks "nonviolence" (I put that in quotes because I don't think it means what he thinks it means) is an effective tool for resisting REAL tyranny. If you are MLK, or Ghandi, and you are fighting a moral, Christian oppression, then yeah, it will work.