Getting rid of racist celebrities is a side effect that happens along the way No one I know thinks of it as some kind of primary organizing goal or spends more time on it individually than writing a snarky tweet Doesn't make it a BAD THING
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Yes, actually, if you look at history, "cancel culture" was not somehow invented in 2015 People have always gotten pissed off at some bigot attaining fame and fortune as a slap in the face to their community Sometimes their complaints even get heard, usually they don't
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I once went researching the history of The Diary of Anne Frank and found a surprisingly "modern-feeling" controversy about the 1959 film adaptation The ADL "tried to cancel" Austrian actress Gusti Huber, who'd portrayed Mrs Frank on Broadway and reprised the role in the film
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Because she did, in fact, have close ties to members of the Nazi regime and had gladly appeared in Nazi propaganda films in the 30s and 40s, before whitewashing her past and reinventing herself as an anti-Nazi resister after the war
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They had a petition and they picketed the shoot and everything Ultimately didn't come to much, the movie was still a huge hit and now it's like one paragraph on Huber's Wikipedia page
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You could argue it's not a big deal - Huber never killed anyone herself, everyone is long dead now, the movie "stands on its own", etc But I dunno, I'm still fucking pissed that some Nazi actress played Anne Frank's mom
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More importantly, I'm not gonna go back in time and tell the actual Holocaust survivors who were there in 1958 they were wrong to be upset, that you've got to separate art from the artist, that these cultural issues are downstream of real politics What kind of an asshole would
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Jfc You try to invoke MLK to make your point and turn him into this caricature of a class-forster, like he'd scoff at "cultural issues" mattering But at the same time he was radicalizing re: economic issues he was ALSO radicalizing on "cultural issues"
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There's nothing radical about anything you've said about culture or any of this. You're mouthing modern day mainstream Democratic party liberalism
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It's a fools errand, but I don't see the MLK increasingly aware of the economic basis of racism and of racism among liberals and moderates as a guy who would support the author of the crime bill and call it anti-racism.
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MLK famously never endorsed any political candidate and never affiliated with the Democratic Party But he damn well ANTI-endorsed Barry Goldwater in 1964 In fact he put everything else on hold prior to that election for a massive GotV drive for LBJ
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And I think it's fair to say that LBJ, especially LBJ in 1964, was worse on pretty much every measure than Joe Biden in 2020, while Goldwater was significantly LESS bad than Donald Trump
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MLK even said that in his view Goldwater wasn't personally a racist, a test DJT surely fails, but believed that the reactionary political tendency Goldwater represented would destroy the hope for all near term progresspic.twitter.com/ghY1eviL51
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