Thequietone
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No, but he had women on the side. FBI was even trying to blackmail him with it.
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Did he feel sorry to black people too or was it only the japanese?
foxuzamaki
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This, holy shit.
User 73706
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The FBI was trying to dismantle the civil rights movement in its entirety, so that's not very surprising.
Forceatowulf
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A lot of people seem eager to forgive this kind of fuckery, they even seem passive, claiming they are simply products of their environment.
I wonder, is this same level of empathy and dismissive attitude also applied to young minorities who get into trouble and are also products of their environment and systemic racism meant to keep them down? Because I don't see nearly as many forgiving and empathetic posters in regards to the toxic environments minorities have to deal with today.
I wonder, is this same level of empathy and dismissive attitude also applied to young minorities who get into trouble and are also products of their environment and systemic racism meant to keep them down? Because I don't see nearly as many forgiving and empathetic posters in regards to the toxic environments minorities have to deal with today.
Jason's Ultimatum
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Hoover had a weird, abnormal fixation on MLK. Considered him a threat to the U.S..
bengraven
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That's bullshit. If I were a middle-class, near middle-aged white man in the 30s instead of the 2010s, I would, like now, be openly fighting against bigotry and racism and sexism and supporting homosexual rights.
(I meant this as an obvious anachronistic joke, but it's not really funny...)
King Tubby
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There are plenty of posters empathetic to the struggle of minorities, I don't even know how you can claim otherwise. Everyone is in large part a product of their environment. It's an inescapable element of who they are. It doesn't mean that there is no such thing as judging people as individuals for their actions, but rather that the environment needs to be taken as a baseline.
For example, I have rather more empathy for people who get involved in the drug game when they live in poor communities flooded with street drugs and little economic opportunity, than I would if they did not and had immensely other options available to them. I feel either is worthy of punishment if they engage in violence, but the latter more so because they had far more choices that could have taken them in other directions than the former.
iamverificationimage
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Gandhi was a racist dick and mother Teresa got off on pain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHQkUBd8LGQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPTl0-2V7os
User 73706
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Neither did Lincoln or Muhammad Ali, the cretins.
Speaking of another wife beater. He even admitted to it in his own damn bio-pic(the one that starred him).
jhmtehgamr20xx
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Fair question, actually. It's kind of like some people have never heard of being selectively racist against certain minorities, but not against certain other minorities.
Not to say I'm familiar enough with any of his other work to say I know the answer to that myself, but it's an interesting thought.
Examples?
Well, before they were kicked out of Tibet, Lamas (religious leaders) lived as feudal nobles with the Dalai Lama as the de facto ''king'' or ''God''. The ''normal'' people lived there as serfs, or slaves of the earth if you prefer. There is also stories of horrors like torture inflicted on them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRXFyOh6yzQ
After that he was working CIA to create Guerrila (read Terrorists) units to counter-act China.
(http://www.westernshugdensociety.org/dalai-lama/dalai-lama-cia/)
When that was known, he lost some the money flow from the US Secret Service (he still is payed today...), he then started to move all around the world, doing the ''peace and spirituality'' movement to get money flowing again.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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There are, but there are just as many who are not. See any thread about racism in general, media representation, police brutality, etc.
As for being products of the time/environment, not everyone has to give in to those surrounding factors. I also wouldn't compare something like lack of opportunity as an environmental factor to widespread racism, especially when the former is caused by the latter.
We can recognize someone's efforts/contributions without absolving them of responsibility for their failings by writing them off as inevitable consequences of the circumstances of their birth.
There is always Keanu Reeves
Spot on. Like it or not, standards were different back then. Yeah, there were plenty of people whose idealism got us to where we are today, but judging someone for their views at a young age, in an incredibly different period of time and social awareness is, to say the least, problematic.
Sir_Crocodile
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Yeah, Fer-de-Lance was a bit of an eyebrow raiser. Glad I stuck with it though. League of Frightened Men was instantly a much better book.
Aceofspades
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This is old right?
Nah he just drew it last week
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