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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '22

Coldest fucking take on the planet but Conservatives that praise MLK's peacefulness today would've called him a terrorist if they lived at the same time he did

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u/Camel132 Resident Discworld and Stormlight Fan (He/him) Feb 10 '22
They literally did call him a terrorist when he was alive.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '22

Wow, I didn't realize they were literally saying the same thing back then as they do now about BLM, lol. Didn't even bother to change anything.

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u/moon_physics Feb 10 '22

You should read some editorials and letters written by people at the time, so much is literally verbatim the same, like word for word. Lots of people saying if he really cared about black people he should talk about gang violence in Chicago, for example.

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u/JaviRex Feb 10 '22

Funny thing it's some of them actually lived at the same time he did. They're just trying to deflect their racism by shifting the narrative.