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Uphold Racial-Marxism MLK Thought (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 years ago by RamrodBaguette@hexbear.net to c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net
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I am glad more and more right wingers, even if still fringe, are finally starting to understand (if still very poorly) that MLK would have despised them and everything they stood for. Then they drop the mask and start talking like 60s Dixiecrats, loud enough for others to hear.

I, for one, encourage them to continue to “smear” one of the most beloved (if whitewashed) figures in America as a commie, which although isn’t accurate is far closer to what he actually was. It might help people get a clue and read more into the Civil Rights Movement’s history. Part of what helped me in my ideological development was learning how the US’s social advances came in spite of the “liberal democratic” system, and socialists/communists were fighting for these causes before it became fashionable for liberals to do the same.

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[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"we need a bigger, better insult than 'commie'"

"oh, how about 'black commie'?"

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

Don't give him any ideas... they'll prbly end up calling MLK the name of Lovecraft's cat...

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago

Yeah this is actually refreshing in comparison to when libs and chuds try to claim him as theirs.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

First time I see the first paragraph of State and Revolution progress backward, where MLK went from reviled during his life to whitewashed and now, at least to this frothing at the mouth hog, back to being reviled.

And you're 100% correct. Liberals hand wring, fascists actively destroy any positive actions; it won't be lost on people that the political group that consistently shows up to fight on the side of marginalized people are socialists. I haven't seen any NATO flags, Libertarian flags, nor any of the flags of the mainstream political parties where I am in Palestinian solidarity protests. It's all socialists. Even when liberals come back to rewrite history and steal valor, any bystander who saw what's happening will know who the people interested in real justice are.

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

went from reviled during his life to whitewashed and now, at least to this frothing at the mouth hog, back to being reviled

Marx had the same journey.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How was Marx ever held in a declawed, sanitized image the way MLK is? At best, Critical Theory is very popular in academia and it has its foundations in Marxism, but it's pretty far removed from the radical political project Marx proposed. To the point I once mentioned Das Kapital to a professor who was giving us a chapter on Horkheimer and Adorno but she had no clue what Das Kapital was. It's even worse outside academia. To most normies, Marx was a brutal dictator just like Lenin and his predecessor Stalin, if they've even heard the name. MLK, for better or worse (mostly worse), has basically been canonized as the only good example for Black activism and nonviolence is presented as the only viable path for justice. One has been relegated to being mentioned in passing, hastily glossed over; the other completely stripped of his radical character, but is at least widely celebrated.

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

In the 20s, when social democrats spend great efforts to portray Marx as a reformist. During the Cold War capitalists went back to reviling him.

[–] RamrodBaguette@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

First time I see the first paragraph of State and Revolution progress backward, where MLK went from reviled during his life to whitewashed and now, at least to this frothing at the mouth hog, back to being reviled.

I doubt MLK's character assassination by dipshits like this will be adopted as a mainstream right wing position, no matter how unhinged the GOP gets. His image being co-opted by the empire, both blue and red sides of the aisle, is simply too valuable an asset for one side to throw it all away to appease some fash, to the point where even deep red state governors have to pay lip service for a more conservative sort of inclusivity. They see the winds blowing for America's changing demographics and have adjusted sails to maintain the infernal machine.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

Conservatives/fascists just love to invent incoherent word salad buzzwords, don't they?

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

MLK Jr. Did not support a color-blind meritocracy

Neither do you. Literally whining to get MORE special treatment for being white is literally your full-time job.

"We are dealing with issues that cannot be solved without the nation spending billions and undergoing a radical redistribution of economic power."

What is wrong with any of that? Or does Mr. small government fully believe government propaganda? Because the black panthers proved that these communities do not need the government, but the so-called 'master race' is fully dependent on the government to give them special treatment just to be competitive. IDK about you, but I put my material well-being over my ego of being a 'genetically superior' peasant because I'm not livestock.

[–] RamrodBaguette@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Like, MLK was a Christian Socialists whose beliefs would definitely get him maligned by anti-communists but they chose the most milquestoast quote. No wonder they also call FDR a commie.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

MLK has done more for my anti-italian-action ass than the KKK ever has. Hell, the KKK even considered me their enemy at one point, yet want me to be all buddy-buddy with my 'fellow whites'?