Anonymous #3 3w

On the one hand, I’d love to see the FBI and government squirm a little longer with an increasingly charismatic, vocal, and influential MLK Jr., however, he was becoming much more jaded and leaning towards a harsher stance, akin to Malcolm X, which might’ve led to a different reputation in the end

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Anonymous #4 3w

Huh! I didn’t even know that!

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Anonymous #3 3w

The way yall will find any excuse to choose an animal over a person is insane. A man who was a leader in his community and created meaningful and lasting change and who could’ve made even more strides had he had the time… or a random gorilla yall only remember because the child who fell in was black and society hated that the little boy was saved instead of sacrificed to extend the life of a random gorilla. Fucking disgusting.

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Anonymous #3 3w

mlk was influential when he was alive…you think thousands of people went to go watch his i have a dream speech if he didn’t make an impact on their lives? and that speech was one of the most influential while he was still alive. when an influential person dies, there will always be an uproar.

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Anonymous #4 3w

Maybe, but Malcom X wasn’t wrong either yall are just convinced that any threat to the status quo is bad

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Anonymous #3 3w

MLK Jr was terribly unpopular while alive. majority of people opposed him and his message and *many* people absolutely HATED him to his core y'all are horribly misinformed about his popularity thanks to whitewashing; killing him so they could sanitize his image because his message couldn't be beaten and he was becoming bolder in his militant beliefs and socialist leanings

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Anonymous #3 3w

you act as if him being murdered by the state so they could make him a prop has a silver lining because it mainstreamed the forms of protest that are least disruptive to your comfort

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Anonymous #10 3w

Oh yeah no, I agree with much of Malcolm X’s philosophy on the use of more power and force to overhaul society. My point is Malcolm X was and still is more controversial than MLK Jr. Maybe in a different timeline with this longer-lived MLK aligning himself with a more violent path this would change, but we can’t predict how that would change his perception or the result of the civil rights movement

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Anonymous #7 3w

I didn’t even know the boy was black. I heard a lot more about how Harambe was acting somewhat paternally and protective of the boy. And that the zoo should be shamed for its poor safety barriers and lack of nonlethal force. Harambe lived to be 17 years old, when the lifespan of a gorilla is up to 50 years.

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Anonymous #3 3w

Wow I really opened a can of worms. Sorry, I should read more about mlk jr sometime. However, this is a highly theoretical post and it is of my opinion that animals don’t have evil intentions. Thus, they can’t sin (again, my opinion)

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Anonymous OP 3w

The fuckin awful dictator guy? Yea no love for him

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Anonymous #8 3w

He was elected.

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Anonymous OP 3w

Bro what? He held absolute power for over 3 decades, killed numerous protesters, issued state-sanctioned violence, oversaw the literal worst prisons on Earth, and executed thousands (along with much much more). He was a piece of shit and the orchestrator of his own destruction, though it didn’t come soon enough. “Loving” him or showing any form of respect is absolutely gross extremely concerning.

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Anonymous OP 3w

So were Hitler, Mao, Milošević, Andrew Jackson, Yahya Khan, Syngman Rhee, Perón, Laval, Ferdinand Marcos, Putin, etc. Just because you’re elected into power doesn’t mean the nation has functioning and free democratic institutions and the official isn’t capable of ultraviolence, corruption, or cruelty

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Anonymous #1 3w

“majority of people opposed him and his message”. Hi so that’s kind of the whole point. The majority of Americans in the 60s were in support of segregation. That was the very status quo which the civil rights movement sought to change

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Anonymous #4 3w

Chill. I said I voted for Harambe

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Anonymous OP 3w

The supreme leader isn't elected in Iran

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Anonymous #14 3w

He’s elected by people who are elected by the people. Just like the electoral college here, and the parliamentary system in most of Europe.

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Anonymous OP 3w

Hold up the electoral college is not elected

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Anonymous #10 3w

You got me. I’m a pro Iranian bot.

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Anonymous OP 3w

I KNEW IT 🕵️‍♂️

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