the myth of "non-violence"
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ADF's song TH9 is a call to action for the Youth Connection, or anyone else who is young and angry and anti-racist, to take to the streets and fight back against racist attacks. The system has already betrayed them -- Quddus Ali, Altab Ali, Stephen Lawrence are the specific men named in the song who have been victims of this racist system. "There are many different languages / Spoken in this land / But only one language that the / Fascist understand": in these lines, ADF points out that the only way to get a message across to the fascists is by speaking their own language of violence. Gandhian "passive resistance," non-violence, and peaceful protests are all things that only work in an ideal world. They are performative actions that are only successful if your oppressor (in this case, the fascists) are willing to pay attention to you or even care about what you have to say -- which in most cases, is simply not true.
ADF acknowledge that their parents's generation were raised with different ideas; most immigrants are too worried about their own safety to fight back against the system, but their children have the privilege to do so as citizens of the country. When he sings, "Now I think I've find a remedy / To this recurring pain," I think he's talking about ending this generational trauma of silenced voices by finding a way to resist the system. "Not passive but resistant."
Basically, I think Asian Dub Foundation hit the nail on the head in TH9 - if you want any kind of real change, you have to "give the fascist man a gunshot" and "kick the f**ckers in the head."