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> To the people downvoting me here: can you list some figures who have been protesting authoritarianism who are left-coded in contemporary American society? Ma

• dgb23 5y ago
  And a few others with media attention from the top of my head: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abby_Martin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abby_Martin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Graeber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Graeber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky
• commandlinefan 5y ago
  He said contemporary American society. MLK died 53 years ago.
  • woodruffw 5y ago
    Are you intending to claim that the second half of the 20th century isn't contemporary? I'm not a historian, but I've understood "contemporary" as a term that refers to events that have occurred in the lifetimes of active historians. Given that a decent chunk of the US's population was alive in 1968 and hasn't even retired yet, it probably fits neatly into that category.
  • trutannus 5y ago
    Right, see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_history "[..] a subset of modern history that describes the historical period from approximately 1945 to the present."