• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Martin only won because the alternative to his vision wasn’t the status quo, it was Malcolm…

    And they still both got killed for it.

    But mercing a CEO in broad daylight ain’t a MLK move, that’s 100% a Malcolm maneuver.

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      Absolutely, I’m not saying Luigi is MLK Jr. even remotely, I’m just saying that what he thinks is the right thing to do at the moment could be in line with some thinking like that, even if the original action is motivated by something else.

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        Actually, it seems like he views himself as a MLK…

        From Mangione’s review of Ted Kaczinski’s book:

        Clearly written by a mathematics prodigy. Reads like a series of lemmas on the question of 21st century quality of life.

        It’s easy to quickly and thoughtless write this off as the manifesto of a lunatic, in order to avoid facing some of the uncomfortable problems it identifies. But it’s simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society turned out.

        He was a violent individual – rightfully imprisoned – who maimed innocent people. While these actions tend to be characterized as those of a crazy luddite, however, they are more accurately seen as those of an extreme political revolutionary.

        https://gizmodo.com/computer-programmer-named-person-of-interest-in-killing-of-unitedhealthcare-ceo-2000536144

        It’s just his standard for Malcolm was Kaczinski…

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          Certainly. I’m not trying to argue with you about what this guy thinks of himself.

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      And looks like Malcolm might be proven right in the end.

      After middle class sided with the blacks, the owner class turned all working Americans into field ******

      And here we are…

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        There’s better ways to say what you said, but there’s still some stuff wrong with it

        After middle class sided with the blacks,

        They really didn’t…

        the owner class turned all working Americans into

        They already had…

        “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

        LBJ said that during the civil rights movement. He wasn’t saying we should do that, but what the republicans were already doing.

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          1. How did civil rights get pushed?

          2. White middle clsss enjoyed 2 decades of unprecedented prosperity, what are you basing your claims on?