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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"Gina Carano getting fired is insufficient" Yeah of course it is, of course it's not gonna fix any problems in and of itself So? Why is it a bad thing that it happened? Are you actually saying it's good but insufficient or are you against it?
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This is what that Internet slang term "concern trolling" is for You talk like you're arguing one thing but you're clearly arguing another You argue that Carano's firing is insufficient, not as big a deal as people say, something we paid too much attention to Fine, maybe
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But that's clearly not your real attitude, or you wouldn't be talking about it so much either You're clearly actively upset she got fired, you clearly think it was a BAD THING, you think her getting fired says something bad about labor relations and she's an oppressed comrade
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Like, you think people "calling for her firing" somehow "missed an opportunity" to "attack the roots of structural racism"? Fine, put up or shut up What opportunity What should people have been doing instead Why not tell us what that is and then set about doing it
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And explain how doing that takes up so much time and energy every day that you can't spare the time to look on Twitter and chuckle that some rich celebrity fuckface lost their job because racism isn't as cool as it used to be
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(I mean shit, MLK cared enough about Star Trek TOS, which wasn't even that good of a show, to go looking up Nichelle Nichols' info and make a long distance call, which was very expensive back then Tweeting is much lower effort by comparison)
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First of all, solid thread! Secondly, detest the Very Online Take: If this doesn't eradicate systemic injustice, then it's useless!
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