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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Jan 15

    A good day to read MLK's fascinating My Pilgrimage To Nonviolence. He learned from Enlightenment thinkers, rejected Marx, Nietzsche, and traditional Christianity, embraced a complex human nature, & of course Gandhi's nonviolence (not the same as pacifism). https://goo.gl/GUZ3ry 

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      1. Kathryn Cannon‏ @katiecannon2 Jan 15
        Replying to @sapinker

        A good day for folks to understand what MLK understood: America is a monetary sovereign -http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2013/08/honoring-dr-kings-call-for-a-job-guarantee-program.html …

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      1. jeff taynton‏ @jefftaynton Jan 15
        Replying to @sapinker

        After reading Dr. King's piece, I am confused about the basis of the claim that he rejected traditional Christianity. Could you clarify this? Thank you for the timely recommendation.

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      1.  ☠️ 🎃 👻Spoopy Scaremiah ☠️ 🎃 👻‏ @Jerbivore Jan 15
        Replying to @sapinker

        He was also a firm socialist.pic.twitter.com/NAplUyddA0

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      2. Eduard Garcia‏ @eduardgarar Jan 16
        Replying to @sapinker

        Nietzschean's will to power is a life-affirming (Dionysian) attitude, rejected by MLK without providing any reasons. Gandhi's ethical values are fundamentally flawed.

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      3. Eduard Garcia‏ @eduardgarar Jan 16
        Replying to @eduardgarar @sapinker

        Gandhian ethics is tainted by a harmful anti-business bias and a highly destructive exaltation of self-sacrifice as a virtue. The good part (i. e. non-violence) is mostly Tolstoy.

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      1. Jim Hammons‏ @jakemorocco Jan 15
        Replying to @sapinker

        OK on Nietzsche and Gandhi, but MLK's Christianity was quite traditional -- if not fundamentalist -- and he began embracing socialism -- if not doctrinaire Marxism -- in his last two years. That essay is from 1958.

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      1. kcz‏ @kcz100 Jan 15
        Replying to @sapinker

        kcz Retweeted The Intercept

        https://twitter.com/theintercept/status/952943640829136896 …

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        King’s slide in popularity coincided with his activism taking a turn from what Americans largely know him for — his campaign for civil rights — to a much more radical one aimed at the war in Vietnam and poverty. https://interc.pt/2Dc9SmO 
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      1. kcz‏ @kcz100 Jan 15
        Replying to @sapinker

        And you omitted his objection to the Vietnam war and US militarism.

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      1. l__ds‏ @l__ds Jan 15
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker Not sure we read the same article: by far the biggest positive influences in it are Christianity, Ghandi, and (qualifiedly) Marx. Enlightenment thinkers are namechecked along with Plato and Aristotle -- that's it.

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      1. ResistanceNotFutile‏ @ReasonWinz Jan 15
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        Let's not forget what else was well understood by MLK: "Riots are the language of the unheard."

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      1. Krème de la Krèmlin‏ @ztarasj Jan 15
        Replying to @sapinker

        Pinker throws his hat into the ring of milquetoast hacks who try to shoehorn King’s socialist, Christian, anti-imperialism into liberalism

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      1. Devin Olio‏ @OlioDevin Jan 15
        Replying to @sapinker

        Rejected traditional Christianity? I never knew you were a theologian, but little Mr. King stated in this article can be grounds for outright rejection. The perils of modern times...an educated man speaking as if he’s educated in everything. Is an excellent read though!

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      1. CrossSchlepper‏ @SimonKobster Jan 15
        Replying to @sapinker

        Is that 'the Jews should forget about moving to Palestine or resisting the Nazis and let themselves be slaughtered in the name of non-violence' Gandhi or some other less idiotic guy?

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      1. vansteenbrugge ignac‏ @vansteenbruggei Jan 15
        Replying to @sapinker

        doesn't mention Ghandi's racism???

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      1. Robin B.‏ @tenaciousrb Jan 15
        Replying to @sapinker

        LOL. He loved communism and communist. What the hell is wrong with traditional Christianity? He was a Southern Baptist preacher. Get your history -- and your facts -- straight.

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      2. Angelos Themelis‏ @AngelosThemelis Jan 15
        Replying to @sapinker @NAChristakis

        He "learned" mostly from the wrong sources . . . with the execption of Gandi !

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      3. Kathryn Cannon‏ @katiecannon2 Jan 15
        Replying to @AngelosThemelis @sapinker @NAChristakis

        At least he understood where money comes from. Pinker doesn't yet 🙁.http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2013/08/honoring-dr-kings-call-for-a-job-guarantee-program.html …

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      4. Angelos Themelis‏ @AngelosThemelis Jan 15
        Replying to @katiecannon2 @sapinker @NAChristakis

        Of course, he did ! He was a pastor and a preacher . . . plenty of money there !

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      5. Kathryn Cannon‏ @katiecannon2 Jan 15
        Replying to @AngelosThemelis @sapinker @NAChristakis

        1/. The federal government issues our national currency, thus funding private sector net savings - private debt - taxes - foreign trade. Only limit to gov spending is availability of real resources and inflation. Fed taxes regulate inflation by removing excess dollars.pic.twitter.com/FZmMvUBdTh

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      6. Kathryn Cannon‏ @katiecannon2 Jan 15
        Replying to @katiecannon2 @AngelosThemelis and

        2/. MLK, among other things supported a federally funded job guarantee. Thus the fed gov would be issuing our currency in the course of insuring full employment. If this causes too much inflation, you tax those inflation causing dollars away.

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      7. Kathryn Cannon‏ @katiecannon2 Jan 15
        Replying to @katiecannon2 @AngelosThemelis and

        3/.pic.twitter.com/HsRxIwXfWp

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      8. Angelos Themelis‏ @AngelosThemelis Jan 15
        Replying to @katiecannon2 @sapinker @NAChristakis

        But he had rejected Marx . . .

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      9. Kathryn Cannon‏ @katiecannon2 Jan 15
        Replying to @AngelosThemelis @sapinker @NAChristakis

        Sure. But the fact that the fed government must pay for something in order to get dollars from the government sector into the private sector has nothing to do with Marx. It can buy a bomb or school. https://medium.com/modern-money-matters/smart-people-talk-about-government-buying-f805c18c4d31 …

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