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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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat
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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This is the same argument that people like Bernie Sanders made for why Trump and Trumpism were so dangerous, that people like you mock as "shilling for the corporate Dems" Which is fine, I guess, just don't lie or speak out of ignorance about who MLK would've sided with
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This is what's so fucking stupid about this discourse "Electing Joe Biden over Donald Trump is not sufficient!" Yeah no shit And electing LBJ over Goldwater was obviously not sufficient MLK said so very forcefully Doesn't mean it wasn't worth doing, like it's a BAD THING
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Systemic racism is bipartisan. Things like the crime bill and bankruptcy bill are more important instruments of racism than Trump's (or anyone else's) personal bigotry. Do you acknowledge that? Or would you at least acknowledge that MLK recognized that?
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You don't think the Democratic Party was racist in 1964? You don't think MLK recognized that LBJ had a ton of racist skeletons in his closet?
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