Hitler and Stalin used assassinations and mass murder to gain and maintain power, Alinsky used protests, humor and boycotts to help those who impoverished and oppressed, never violence. He stood up for working people, oppressed minorities and the poor when doing so often was met with violent repression. I suspect one of the main reasons conservatives love to criticize him, besides his many successes, is largely because his name sounds Russian and Jewish. The people who hold all the wealth and power never give up their privilege unless they are threatened with violence or public shaming. Alinsky used public shaming.
"...Alinsky once explained that his reasons for organizing in black communities included:
Negroes were being lynched regularly in the South as the first stirrings of black opposition began to be felt, and many of the white civil rights organizers and labor agitators who had started to work with them were tarred and feathered, castrated—or killed. Most Southern politicians were members of the Ku Klux Klan and had no compunction about boasting of it....
His early efforts to "turn scattered, voiceless discontent into a united protest" aroused the admiration of Illinois governor Adlai Stevenson, who said Alinsky's aims "most faithfully reflect our ideals of brotherhood, tolerance, charity and dignity of the individual."[4]
As a result of his efforts and success at helping slum communities, Alinsky spent the next 10 years repeating his organization work across the nation, "from Kansas City and Detroit to the barrios of Southern California." By 1950 he turned his attention to the African American ghettos of Chicago.....
Alinsky once threatened to stage a "fart in" to disrupt the sensibilities of the city's establishment at a Rochester Philharmonic concert. FIGHT members were to consume large quantities of baked beans after which, according to author Nicholas von Hoffman, "FIGHT's increasingly gaseous music-loving members would hie themselves to the concert hall where they would sit expelling gaseous vapors with such noisy velocity as to compete with the woodwinds."[13] Satisfied with his threat yielding action, Alinsky later threatened a "piss in" at Chicago O'Hare Airport. Alinsky planned to arrange for large numbers of well-dressed African Americans to occupy the urinals and toilets at O'Hare for as long as it took to bring the city to the bargaining table. According to Alinsky, once again the threat alone was sufficient to produce results.[13] In Rules for Radicals, he notes that this tactic fell under two of his rules: Rule #3: Wherever possible, go outside the experience of the enemy; and Rule #4: Ridicule is man's most potent weapon...."
Saul Alinsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So-called 'political correctness' is about informing the clueless that the words they ignorantly choose to use are usually chosen with an intend to disrespect, dehumanize and belittle those who are different or unpopular. Those who are aware of that and choose to use those words regardless should be called out for what they are: bigoted, disrespectful bullies. Is their any doubt about the intent of most people who use words like wetback, nigger, faggot, camel jockey?
