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Whitewashing Women’s History, Criminalising Peaceful Protest

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IwantToRetire · Today 20:09

... Lady Carr, Chief Justice of England and Wales, declared that “Palestine Action is not, as it claims, a direct-action civil disobedience protest group like the Suffragettes operating transparently in the open.”

Turning to the history books rather than subscribing to the judge’s conveniently sanitised version of events, I read the list of suffragettes’ direct actions: bottles of acid poured into post-boxes; bombings of theatres, hotels and railway stations; arson attacks at Kew Gardens; assassination plots against the prime minister. Are they seriously trying to hoodwink us into believing that these militant women planned their actions out in the open, within earshot of any passing James, George or Joe? The Suffragettes were angry and they were deliberately violent. At least four people died and multiple others were injured at the height of their activities between 1912 and 1914. The history of the Suffragettes is being deliberately whitewashed. ...

From https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/06/19/whitewashing-womens-history-criminalising-peaceful-protest/

Whitewashing Women’s History, Criminalising Peaceful Protest
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AlexandraLeaving · Today 20:14

I think a lot of people conflate the Suffragists with the Suffragettes - the former being exclusively about peaceful protests and the latter being quite unpeaceful in their actions. I'm no historian, but from what I have read it is unclear whether equalisation of the franchise was influenced more by the Suffragists or the Suffragettes. The word 'suffragette' has been what has been remembered in popular history but not sure whether they were the most influential.

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