https://nitter.net/BerniceKing/status/1719524029600612666
Context is that Amy Schumer is claiming that MLK was a zionist.
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.
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.
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
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 "
thinking about when capital used MLK to sell Dodge Ram trucks at the super bowl
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.
A lot of libs think Lenin was okay but Stalin went too far, which is close if you squint.
I think invoking Lenin might be perceived as too dangerous for them, better to try and let him fade away while they pat themselves on the back for invoking MLK, Ghandi, or Nelson Mandela
I think it's that they can pigeonhole antiracist or national liberation figures like those you listed into those issues alone, while ignoring their broader socialist politics. Lenin was a communist first and foremost, so it's harder to sanitize.
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
smh octopus isn't shooting lasers at the krakka
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.
Didn't they unironically accuse him of being a Soviet agent during the Civil Rights movement?
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.
come on man, the building was called "Target"
sounds like this MLK guy is a Russian asset