Anonymous #3 18w

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 18w

Huh! I didn’t even know that!

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Anonymous #3 18w

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 18w

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 18w

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 18w

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 18w

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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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 18w

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 18w

The fuckin awful dictator guy? Yea no love for him

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Anonymous #8 18w

He was elected.

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Anonymous OP 18w

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 18w

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 18w

“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 18w

Chill. I said I voted for Harambe

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Anonymous OP 18w

The supreme leader isn't elected in Iran

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Anonymous #14 18w

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 18w

Hold up the electoral college is not elected

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Anonymous #10 17w

You got me. I’m a pro Iranian bot.

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Anonymous OP 17w

I KNEW IT 🕵️‍♂️

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