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In reply to the discussion: Do you believe the civil disobedience methods of Gandhi and MLK would have worked against Hitler? [View all]MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)15. No way, the SS would have ended them before they got started.
Non-violence only works against a semi-civilized opponent.
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Do you believe the civil disobedience methods of Gandhi and MLK would have worked against Hitler? [View all]
ZombieHorde
Apr 2012
OP
i didn't make any comparison. i said our own regime slaughters innocents & has all through its
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#87
unless, of course, the weak are puppies and the 'powerful' are their owners. then there will be
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#91
Oh, of course, as always puppies, kittehs, and pretty blond girls are excluded...
Egalitarian Thug
Apr 2012
#96
no because the overwhemling majority of german christians loved hitler. he was NOT like the brits in
msongs
Apr 2012
#5
No. The more brutal the regime, the more brutal are the methods required to overthrow it
Kaleva
Apr 2012
#11
Depends on how many people participated, but under certain circumstances it could work
Bjorn Against
Apr 2012
#13
Given that Gandhi said the Jews should have committed mass suicide....
Behind the Aegis
Apr 2012
#26
Yes, I read somewhere that Ghandi said that no more would have died if we had never gone to war.
jwirr
Apr 2012
#64
I believe Bashar Al Assad is a great example of being shot for demonstrating peacefully.
Selatius
Apr 2012
#27
Who do you propose would be committing CD against Hitler? The German
coalition_unwilling
Apr 2012
#28
I think sometimes people become enamored of a tactic and forget the goal, which can lead to
jtuck004
Apr 2012
#103
It's really worth watching. DVD's are in many libraries, though not available on Netflix.
mahina
Apr 2012
#32
Why are you asking a stupid question you already know the answer to?
UnrepentantLiberal
Apr 2012
#34
On a side note: I think MLK and Ghandi succeeded *because* of a credible threat of violence.
redgreenandblue
Apr 2012
#36
A leader must fear what the world thinks or that his rep will be distroyed before it can work.
jwirr
Apr 2012
#67
Is this a thinly veiled attempt to drum up support for another "peacekeeping invasion"?
redgreenandblue
Apr 2012
#37
While true in one sense, the problem with your argument is that Hitler wasnt even Hitler at first.
stevenleser
Apr 2012
#71
The closest thing to Hitler's Poland invasion during the last decades was the invasion of Iraq.
redgreenandblue
Apr 2012
#99
I am with you on this one. The negotiations left Germany with nothing to fall back on. They were
jwirr
Apr 2012
#68
Their method of dealing with dissent was to kill everyone, not just one or two
lunatica
Apr 2012
#41
Have you read Daniel Goldhagen's "Hitler's Willing Executioners"? If not,
coalition_unwilling
Apr 2012
#93
Cooperation might make things easier, but lack of cooperation wouldn't necessarily stop the crime
4th law of robotics
Apr 2012
#78
Maybe, the world didn't know during the Olympic games that Germany was toxic. Peaceful ...
uponit7771
Apr 2012
#55
Civil disobedience requires a free press and something like an adherence to the law
4th law of robotics
Apr 2012
#70
Like many others, I think it depends on a regimes fear of world opinion and their appetite for death
stevenleser
Apr 2012
#72
If I can flip that over, Would 'Dancing with the Stars' have worked against Ghandi?
KurtNYC
Apr 2012
#77
nope. hitler & gandhi's methods only work when there's a gov't that feels it needs to respond
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#80