“The reason we celebrate MLK is because he wasn’t Malcom X” is true, unfortunately. However, to believe it’s a good thing that this is true is contemptible and lazy reductio ad absurdum.
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Exactly. The reason we -- the society that has barely inched forward on civil rights issues -- celebrate him is to minimize risks to the status quo by elevating a truly extraordinary human being *and* sanitizing what that same person said and believed. Shapiro is a sack of shit.
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your analogy exceeds my understanding abilities :D care to elaborate?
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Basically, I spend some time each night (and some mornings) watching and reading a lot of bullshit trying to understand it. But, there isn't really a way to create a durable, perfect barrier between myself and that bullshit. It taxes the mind and soul.
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