• BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    This one really gets me. Had an arguement with a irl lib friend during the George Floyd protests. They were like, “they need to be peaceful like MLK, not blocking traffic.” MLK blocked traffic!!! What are you talking about!!!

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        Of course, libs hate living revolutionaries, but dead ones don’t do inconvenient things like support oppressed people or criticize oppressive power structures. Or as Lenin put it:

        During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.

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        I remember Michael Moore talking about how he felt when he was a kid, hanging out with a bunch of unionized detroit auto workers, and how they roared with approval when the radio announced King’s assassination.

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          The way I heard him tell it (on the chapo podcast) was he was walking out of church when that happened, too. Kind of a morbid and disgusting irony to celebrating his death amongst your group of “good church-going people” too

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      MLK was constantly tarred for inciting riots (even when he didn’t), for inciting property damages (which he didn’t), for his followers being rude or destructive (even when they mostly weren’t), and just generally painted as a violent, uppity ****** in his time

      Fucking idiots

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      No you see selma bridge was a foot bridge with no car traffic!

      It’s disgusting how the history of the Civil Rights movement has been twisted, sanitized, and re-written.