Oppression, Resistance & Revolution: Friday

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"I'm sure most of you are keen on leaving this class early," Magneto announced as he walked into the danger shop precisely as the bell rang. "Rest assured your homecoming activities can wait. Fun and frivolity has it's place. So does knowledge."

"Before the fall break we watch a movie," he continued as he began his regular circuit around the room. "About a man and his desire for a free country for his people. You may ask: what made that man different from others? For that I can give you a simple answer: conviction. As I mentioned before, just because you may take the option of non-violence does not mean it's going to be easy."

He gave his students a sinister grin and snapped his fingers. The danger shop swift changed from blank walls to what appeared to be a modern day protest. The only switch to this that there were counter protesters on the other side.

"Today, we're going to test your conviction," Magneto said with a malevolent look of glee. "And just see how well you can do. If you wish to bow out... you may. However that may tell me more about you than any other class you have taken with me so far."

He pointed at the protest going on and gestured for the class to join in. "Begin."

Comments

Re: Classroom Exercise: Part IV

[glacial_queen]

M-Day had been caused by a mutant anyway, so hiding still wouldn't have helped. Of course, Karla didn't know most of those details anyway, including the ones about birth and manifestation rates.

"I'm running, too," Karla admitted softly. "Not from the same things you are, but running all the same. Sometimes you have to run. But what is right for you isn't the same as what is right for all."

Re: Classroom Exercise: Part IV

[genesishero]

"No," Evan murmured, "I guess that's true."

He didn't sound entirely convinced, really. But then, his father hadn't raised him to run away like a coward, either.

"I don't actually like running, you know."

Re: Classroom Exercise: Part IV

[glacial_queen]

"Wouldn't think you did," Karla said. By this time, she'd pulled herself back into the wagon and sat back down beside Evan. "But sometimes you have to. I abandoned my people--over a million souls to save myself. It took me a long time to accept that if I hadn't run, I wouldn't have survived and then no one would be able to protect them. When you're raised to think of others first, you have trouble doing things that are just for you. But that doesn't mean those things aren't important.