Some of the most fruitful creative relationships I've ever had in this industry have been with artists or with engineers and the idea of everyone in the industry just going "*my* discipline is important ofc but we can just use the slop machine for everyone else's" is so fucking depressing

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some irate thoughts from the other website after yet another sly aside caught in a random baseball video about how worthless liberal arts degrees are

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Which is not even a little bit how King and the civil rights movement won. They won with direct action, by gumming up the gears of segregation, by boycotting businesses and staging sit ins and marches and being willing to get their asses beaten. State-sanctioned protest isn’t protest.

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Also, if you want to argue about the effectiveness of nonviolence and the King vs X stuff - the stuff that King was leading was still *direct action*. There is this idea that MLK made the I Have A Dream speech and a bunch of people marched and then all the racists said “jeepers I guess you win”

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The kind of thing people said about MLK when he was alive were exactly identical to the thing they say about protests now.

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