Television was the revolution.
If people hadn’t seen MLK, the Freedom Riders, and other protesters being attacked, they would have been able to ignore it. It was when people saw the Vietnam War on the nightly news that they started reconsidering LBJ’s policies.
Seems like the same thing in Gaza. As soon as we started seeing bodies, the tone started changing. There’s a reason that the nightly news in the US doesn’t show the cruel results of our wars.
If the televised coverage supports the revolution, it’s not the revolution. They will absolutely cover it in order to demonize it.
i just hate how right wingers took the whole red pill thing for their own shit and fascistic politics.
red is a commie thing, ya? waves across all communist symoblism and flags just look.
Alright? thanks.
I think I saw a clip of an interview with Gil Scott-Heron (who wrote The Revolution Will Not Be Televised) about how the meaning of that text to him was that the urge for revolution will not be awakened externally, but that each must go through that process internally. Or at least that’s how I understood that. Here is that clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZvWt29OG0s
