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It's the dunk tank.
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Is it bad to say that I genuinely hate liberals more than the far right
This is a great quote, it has been some time since I read up on MLK so I forgot who had said it. I agree with it completely.
mostly, he also had some bad takes
Cornel West is the same. You sometimes hear him talk and you think "what a wonderful human being" and then he says something that makes you want to poke your eyes out...
I'll stick to Lenin for inspiration, thank you very much.
Lenin used to have struggle sessions with his own wife where he argued (a bit like a modern STEMbro) that librarians and teachers weren't legitimate workers and should be somehow phased out of society. His wife changed his mind over time.
I never forgot that once I learned about that.
He was literally a professional theologian and his beliefs were instrumental to his activist work. And when was this quote from? He became more and more fervently anti-capitalist as time went on and he realized that the United States was a "burning house" due to its broken economic system.
He spoke a few times saying that Communist states hadn't aligned themselves to the same freedoms as America is supposed to, etc. etc. It's pretty bread and butter appealing to red scare America rhetoric, and it's much less anti Communist than almost anything else that was remotely mainstream from the time. So I say he gets a pass.
Where Do We Go From Here? August 1967, 8 months before being assassinated
pointing out a bad take doesn’t diminish his accomplishments, being a demsoc is still good, he knew the feds were after him and what his audience needed to hear and definitely gets a pass
Hard agree. Too bad seeing that in '67 though.
Yeah, sad that schools teach such a watered down version of him.
The fact that they had to water him down, and couldn't just disappear him from mainstream historiography like they did with Huey Newton, is a big part of what makes him a legend.
Typical liberal: "Malcolm X was basically MLK except bad!"
It's almost funny to see liberals quoting this at 'centrist' liberals as though they aren't basically identical.
Almost.
At least the fash is honest about being pieces of shit. Liberals wants you to pretend they're the good guys.
Pretty much this. I hate the moral high horse that liberals ride on more than anything.
(CW gross shit) its Political Nice Guyism. They wanna pretend they care soo much, and things will be better under them I promise, and how could we not want to vote for such nice progressive people like them??
But then when you tell them you won't support genocide? They take the mask off. "That's fine that you're too stupid to know what's good for you, I hope Trump throws you in a camp you ugly bitch"
And when they do get in, they're all jumping over themselves to libsplain to you why they're doing Jack shit about those progressive noises they made during the campaign: "now is not the time", "but the national credit card", "but the terror threat", "but their legitimate concerns" or they pull out some teeny-tiny little token improvement, the 1% that separates 99% Hitler from 100% Hitler, and want you to be impressed that they made a plan for making 20% of the food served to children in concentration camps organic by 2075.
The enemy that tells you to your face they want to kill you is better than the enemy that smiles at you while sliding a knife into your back.
One is the obvious enemy, the other is cynically occupying the space of progressive. A parasite sucking up radical potential and dissipating it or redirecting it into nonthreatening outlets (like bourgeois electoralism)
Chuds don't pretend they're your friend while shooting your comrades dead.
They both support mass murder but the libs are condescendingly smug about it.
It’s better to deal with assholes than getting fuck over by hypocrites