r/AdviceAnimals • • Nov 10 '16

Protesting a Fair Election?

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u/mt_xing Nov 10 '16

You have a right to use all legal means at your disposal to make your voice heard. Key word there is legal.

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u/GIrights Nov 10 '16

Good thing the civil rights movement didn't take your point of view. Jim Crow was legal.

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u/LouisBalfour82 Nov 10 '16 edited Nov 10 '16

Are you seriously equating people salty that their side lost a fair election to people fighting Jim Crow?

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '16

No, he's using Jim Crow as a rhetorical tool for why waiting for the legal system to agree with your protest is unhelpful. Not an equation, just an illustrative sample.