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Context is that Amy Schumer is claiming that MLK was a zionist.

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[-] Othello@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

Context is that Amy Schumer is claiming that MLK was a zionist.

my eye is twitching

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think its interesting that people are so enamored with certain historical figures that their words are treated as gospel, and like the Bible, they alter and morph words to new meanings. Context evolves over time, you don't need to worship anyone.

[-] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

MLK is just a blank slate for liberals to launder feelings of righteousness towards whatever contemporary position they need to support. Which conveniently never includes liberation movements, poverty alleviation, or civil rights.

The white moderate is puppeteering the foggy memory of MLK into serving oppression. Any figure they can't do that with will get the Stalin treatment.

[-] GriffithDidNothingWrong@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Malcolm X never lived to see the government fall

But the state he opposed made him a stamp

Maybe that's the best you can hope for if you never give up:

Your enemies will teach your corpse to dance

[-] D3FNC@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

I relistened to his recorded speeches last year, highly recommend

It is unbelievable how nothing has changed, all of his criticisms and rage are still completely valid. The absolute inane myth of " the so-called progressive party "

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

thinking about when capital used MLK to sell Dodge Ram trucks at the super bowl

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

Lenin has been continually proven correct for the past century:

During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.

Literacy in the English speaking world has a tendency to say, “the text says” instead of “the author says” and there’s conjecture that that majorly affects the way that kids relate to texts while learning. It makes them more authoritative which, given that a lot literacy instruction has its roots in learning to read the Bible, makes quite a bit of sense.

Like the way liberals love to pull out one random Marx quote as though that counters his every argument. So what? He wasn't a prophet and his words aren't scripture that doesn't mean you can discount everything he had to say

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago
[-] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

smh octopus isn't shooting lasers at the krakka

[-] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reminds me of people using MLK as a bludgeon for why the BLM riots were terrible, and just look at what they did to that Target.

[-] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

che-laugh come on man, the building was called "Target"

[-] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

maybe-later-kiddo sounds like this MLK guy is a Russian asset

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Didn't they unironically accuse him of being a Soviet agent during the Civil Rights movement?

[-] NewAcctWhoDis@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

I somehow managed to make it this long without having a strong opinion on Amy Schumer, but she finally managed to make me hate her.

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