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Yes, but he was really bad in some respects, that clashes with his public image/caricature in a way that kind of matters

spencerflem 2y ago
cool
floatrock 2y ago
I mean, we're regressing everything else back to the good ol' 1960's, so yeah, sure, why not, lets whip out the ol "sexual deviant" playbook to discredit some basic human rights and fairness. As long as people are distracted by some black guy's bisexuality or whatever they won't ask questions about all the underage human trafficking on epstein's lolita express with the people who are actually alive and running the government today. Oh, and icing on the cake: it's a good pretext to remove MLK Day and that Black History Month. Guy was a sexual deviant, so clearly the civil rights movement was a giant discredited DEI sham. eg https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/defense-agency-bans-black-history-month-rcna190189 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/defense-agency...
phelddagrif 2y ago
The most liberal comment in this site's history
- cwmoore 2y ago
  kind of
mystified5016 2y ago
You can say the same thing for literally every political figure throughout all of human history. People have said this throughout all recorded history. Please read a book.
geysersam 2y ago
In what respects?
- kodt 2y ago
  He is known to be a womanizer and to have used his fame to sleep with women, and may have fathered some illegitimate children. But the most damning is that apparently the FBI has an audio recording of him laughing and even giving encouragement while another man rapes a woman in a hotel room.
  - 1945 2y ago
    The same FBI that sent him anonymous letters, trying to encourage MLK to choose suicide?
    - throwaway48476 2y ago
      It's hard to blackmail someone with false information. That's why Hoover was spying and digging up dirt.
  - geysersam 2y ago
    Why didn't the police proceed with criminal charges?
rat87 2y ago
He wasn't "really bad". He was a hero but also a human with human faults

spencerflem 2y ago

cool

floatrock 2y ago

I mean, we're regressing everything else back to the good ol' 1960's, so yeah, sure, why not, lets whip out the ol "sexual deviant" playbook to discredit some basic human rights and fairness. As long as people are distracted by some black guy's bisexuality or whatever they won't ask questions about all the underage human trafficking on epstein's lolita express with the people who are actually alive and running the government today. Oh, and icing on the cake: it's a good pretext to remove MLK Day and that Black History Month. Guy was a sexual deviant, so clearly the civil rights movement was a giant discredited DEI sham. eg https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/defense-agency-bans-black-history-month-rcna190189 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/defense-agency...

phelddagrif 2y ago

The most liberal comment in this site's history

cwmoore 2y ago
kind of

mystified5016 2y ago

You can say the same thing for literally every political figure throughout all of human history. People have said this throughout all recorded history. Please read a book.

geysersam 2y ago

In what respects?

kodt 2y ago
He is known to be a womanizer and to have used his fame to sleep with women, and may have fathered some illegitimate children. But the most damning is that apparently the FBI has an audio recording of him laughing and even giving encouragement while another man rapes a woman in a hotel room.
- 1945 2y ago
  The same FBI that sent him anonymous letters, trying to encourage MLK to choose suicide?
  - throwaway48476 2y ago
    It's hard to blackmail someone with false information. That's why Hoover was spying and digging up dirt.
- geysersam 2y ago
  Why didn't the police proceed with criminal charges?

rat87 2y ago

He wasn't "really bad". He was a hero but also a human with human faults