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Why do people assume revolutionary action must be violent? Emmeline Pankhurst will want to have words with them.


Have you seen people?


> You really need to read up on your history.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47888542


The suffragette movement was hardly a revolution in the traditional sense.


Giving so many people the ability to vote was absolutely a fundamental shift in the social, political, or societal order, so is absolutely a traditional revolution. This is just the 'no true scotsman' argument.




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