Non violence is easy to ignore. First it starts with, ‘Don’t destroy public property.’ Then, it’s, ‘Don’t block roads.’ You get a handful of liberals acting in good faith against a system that always acts on bad faith unless forced to change otherwise. After that, it is, ‘Don’t cause traffic jams.’ All these rules sound fair but they’re designed to keep protests harmless, useless and easily ignored while normalizing such rules so that people are more repulsed by individual violence than state injustice. If you follow the rules, you accomplish nothing because tyrants don’t listen to others; if you don’t, you are a terrorist. Liberals concerned with the optics of protest thus take away the very thing that can save them as the definition of peaceful gets narrower and narrower.

Violence is legitimate for legitimate ends. Power concedes nothing without a struggle.