To be fair, (in general, not to this asshat) the way liberals talk up Parks feels like Great Man Theory. In doing so and pretending Parks was just some random lady that refused to get up and got shit done they can erase movements and years of protests. It also opens the door to lame takes like in the image.
They went to get arrested that is part of the story. It was civil disobedience over an unjust law people are literally TAUGHT THIS in classes. Or use to be this country adore covering its history up.
are you telling me all those people in india weren’t just collecting sea water
The only sustainable growth model. Hating honkeys futures going to the moon!
Okay but hi-key reddit retention and user-base is all driven by hate. Somebody did a post here saying that all the top subs are like /r/justiceserved or similar anger-fueling subreddits.
I have this reflexive urge to leap in and refute this, and I've got to mentally check myself to remember its a fool's errand.
He’s a hero for rich capitalists who don’t want to bother with the hassle of putting a signature on insurance forms
Christ it’s not a secret she “staged” it. Maybe apocryphal, but I had learned it was a strategy launched partly in response to the Emmitt Till case, which had been decided a few weeks or months earlier.
Depends on where you went to school! I remember explicitly being told that she was just a "tired, poor old woman who didn't want to get up from her seat" rather than an engaged political activist.
Death, as always, to :amerikkka:
Remember, kids, change happens by random happenstance, not as the result of prolonged organizing and action!
I thought this is basically true? Like I don't know if it was because some woman wasn't "photogenic enough" but basically yeah she was a civil rights activist, the arrest was intentional and the incident was planned, is that not true?
So many silent white liberals came out of the woodwork for Elijah McClain for this sad reason. Of course everyone should have and it’s a particularly egregious case, but championing “he played the violin for shelter animals!!” as a reason for him being more deserving of safety is the kind of means testing you get from people who tailor their life experiences for college essay content.
Also something additional to keep in mind with Rittenhouse is that there was video of him assaulting some random teenage girl before he went on his shooting spree. Of course his past was never held against him.
I know, I thought your post was to point out a wild take on the civil rights movement
It is. A redditor is equating rittenhouse and the civil rights movement, and the first response is to criticise the civil rights movement.
