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Posted by blindness on June 10, 2025 at 10:25:48

In Reply to: ''They will call you violent'' posted by blindness on June 10, 2025 at 08:26:58

non-violent resistance, crucially after you're dead and long gone and they're gleefully co-opting de-contextualized blurbs from your speeches.

Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

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— Parker Molloy (@parkermolloy.com) June 10, 2025 at 8:42 AM

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Re: ... before they finally hold you up as a shining example of TheHappyBurgermeister 11:15:50 06/10/25 (4)
- I'm more interested in the narratives that form around protests blindness 11:50:10 06/10/25 (2)
  - I think my response to the looting/protesting dichotomy TheHappyBurgermeister 13:02:30 06/10/25 (1)
    - To some extent I think we're broken blindness 16:18:22 06/10/25 (0)
- I think they shot and killed him ClockBlocker 11:47:58 06/10/25 (0)

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