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Not in my backyard (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 days ago by Gigliorananomicom@sh.itjust.works to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Now tell me — just for contrast — what did the conservatives of the time do when those same "leftists" beat down their doors...? That's right: laughed at them if they didn't lynch them.

...and centrists were ok with it until they got scared enough of people like Malcolm X to take MLK's vision seriously and stop laughing as black civil rights leaders got lynched and murdered.

It is white "moderates" i.e. that kept saying now is not the time and that is the wrong tone until leftist, worker movements forced it to be the right time.

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It. Does. Not. Matter.

The only thing that matters is that those evil centrists were the ones to actually LISTEN... To change the laws. To move the boulder of progress forward.

If it was that easy, then why didn't the southern conservatives get scared into submission?

At the end of the day, MLK Jr., worked with those evil-doer centrist liberals — NOT the conservative southern lynchers and the KKK. If you don't believe me, just overlap a map of modern red states with the confederacy with the 1964 Voting Rights Act YES and NO Votes.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

My point is centrists folded because it became ideologically and politically the path of least resistance because civil rights activists, leftists and radicals created those conditions and made ignoring them no longer possible (which is what centrists almost by definition always want to do).

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And my point is — Why didn't Conservatives of the time fold?

I'm not sure what you think I'm arguing about, but the only thing that matters is that Liberals were the gateway through which progressive activism found a voice. After all, there wasn't a single leftist in Congress at the time.

So thank a liberal for at least being capable of being pressured when a conservative at the time could not be.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

So thank a liberal for at least being capable of being pressured when a conservative at the time could not be.

Lol that is a ridiculous thing to ask me to thank someone for.

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Lol then it's a good thing I wasn't asking!