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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His SCLC speech in 1967, "Where Do We Go From Here?" which is almost as much of a Rorschach blot in the hands of later commentators as "I Have A Dream", nevertheless makes it VERY clear he sees Black liberation as a cultural/personal/spiritual quest as much as a matter of policy
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Conservatives mocked the "Black Is Beautiful" slogan of the later Black Power movement and Jesse Jackson's "I Am Somebody" but they both come from this same big capstone speech from MLK himselfpic.twitter.com/yji6evqVm7
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"I'm Black and I'm Beautiful" should by rights put a stake through the heart of the anodyne "colorblindness", "It's best not to see race" interpretation of "I Have A Dream" But white people mostly just pretend this speech didn't happenhttps://youtu.be/voV9ld-Qooc
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So yes, I completely believe Nichelle Nichols' story about MLK calling her telling her not to quit her job on Star Trek Star Trek isn't *that* important, not enough to march in the streets for or start a formal campaign about But it's worth a damn phone call
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The media and the arts and cultural representation aren't the only thing that matters but if you say they straight up DON'T matter or if you adopt this galaxy brain inverted argument that cultural representation is somehow BAD you're a damn fool MLK certainly would've thought so
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You're all over the place talking about culture. At first you were denying cultural change was at play, now you're saying it's critical. Ofc cultural change is important. Not cultural change seeing corporations/employers/HR practices as allies in anti-racism.
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What I specifically denied was that cultural changes have "made employers more powerful", which is an utterly nonsense thing to say Employers are not in any sense more powerful than they were in the past and if you believe they were you know nothing about the past
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat
"Employers are not in any sense more powerful than they were in the past" If you compare today only to pre-union times you might have a point. But to say that's true compared to employers since say the 1940s is flatly wrong. Decline of unionization is key
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Oh, let me look around for some examples of Hollywood actors getting fired for their political beliefs in the 1940s and 1950s It might take some digging, it was so long agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist …
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It was legal to fire someone based on their religious beliefs or because they got married until 1964. It was legal to fire women who became pregnant until 1978. It was legal in much of the country to fire someone for being gay or transgender until 2020.
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