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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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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It wasn’t a phone call though. Ms. Nichols met Dr. King at an event. There he told her about his family being fans and she mentioned that she was planning to leave Star Trek. Here’s the story in her own words.https://youtu.be/pSq_UIuxba8
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Ah, thanks for the correction
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You’re very welcome.
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