I agree that non violence doesn’t really work on its own. But it can help support more aggressive action , albeit, unintentionally.

People fighting against oppression need to be ramped up to violence and extremism.

They don’t start that way right off. People start to get frustrated with the lack of progress of "peaceful’ methods and will start taking matters into their own hands.

The peaceful movements still help keep public opinion more positive.

It’s weird how we glorify war veterans that kill, murder, rape.

But in our history and reflections, we often look poorly on the extremist of civil rights and revolution movements as being out of control and excessively violent. And promote the leaders who were peaceful but didn’t actually achieve much.

Yet it is those extremist people who actually make the change happen.

It’s a bit of a paradox.

You don’t want a culture or society to promote violent behaviors in the people, because when you do it often spills over into people hurting each other (within the same society).

But if you discourage violence and see it as always wrong, then those who do use it will be on top with no one to hold them accountable.