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[–] [email protected] 81 points 11 months ago (2 children)

they would have hated MLK too if they had been around back then

[–] [email protected] 56 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Of course, libs hate living revolutionaries, but dead ones don't do inconvenient things like support oppressed people or criticize oppressive power structures. Or as Lenin put it:

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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago

It's worth noting that (as Lenin notes here) it's not just liberals, it's the oppressing classes. See the conservative rehabilitation of MLK as a moderate who actually thinks there's no such thing as systemic racism.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The one I can't get is why they're so mada bout Che. Dude's as squeaky clean as any revolutionary has ever been but they loathe him.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What’s that libbed up sitcom where the mom goes, “walking into a Cuban’s house with a Che Guevara tshirt is like walking into a Jewish home with an Adolf Hitler tshirt”?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

One Day At A Time, which I had never even heard of until now

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I remember Michael Moore talking about how he felt when he was a kid, hanging out with a bunch of unionized detroit auto workers, and how they roared with approval when the radio announced King's assassination.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

The way I heard him tell it (on the chapo podcast) was he was walking out of church when that happened, too. Kind of a morbid and disgusting irony to celebrating his death amongst your group of “good church-going people” too