MLK said that the "[white] moderate" was a bigger obstacle to civil rights than the KKK." You're seeing why today with people like Ezra. Here's the part from MLK's Birmingham jail letter.
Aspiring writer, dog mom, find me on Medium.
1,026 followers 316 following 1,743 posts
view profile on Bluesky
MLK said that the "[white] moderate" was a bigger obstacle to civil rights than the KKK." You're seeing why today with people like Ezra. Here's the part from MLK's Birmingham jail letter.
What’s the middle ground between me wanting to live my life and the right wanting me sent to camps to die? Please let the trans community know just how expendable we are so you can hold the middle ground.
We, famously, have a surplus of pilots in America? Airlines are always asking what they should do with all these extra pilots taking up their rosters? Once a tool, always…
I bet he thinks he’s a straight guy.
Weeeeeeell that’s some propaganda she just posted there. TERFs embody that Hitler quote. She has either zero self-awareness or zero shame. (Possibly both things are true, yes.)
Reads like someone gave an AI prompt
Every time I say this someone always argues with me and honestly if you are disagreeing with this you're either a cop, a fed, or too uninformed about the legal system to have a valid opinion. DEMAND A LAWYER AND SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Just going to remind you that if the police or any other law enforcement show up you should ABSOLUTELY say I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT i.e., then say nothing else except repeatedly demanding a lawyer.
Could?
Those poor kids are going to be raised indoctrinated into the idea that he was some kind of perfect saint. Then they’re going to find vids that show his real rhetoric.
What you said is inadvertently true. The idiocy of throwing minorities under the bus to woo “center right” voters will absolutely cost them the next election. Privileged white gay folks ready to throw the rest of us away because you got yours is shameful. We stand together or we all fall.
Here it is. Please share it widely. I didn't do this because I wanted to be safe, but because I am determined not to lose my freedoms without a fight. I'm doing this for you, America. Long live the bill of rights and fuck Charlie Kirk.
1. Trump threatened every hospital that provides gender affirming care to transgender youth. Many complied and shut down their programs. Boston Children's Hospital didn't. They fought back and kept providing care. And now, they just beat Trump in court. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Sooooo, they’ve just decided pesky facts won’t even slow them down from blaming trans people? Well. That’s fuuuuuun. 😐
The video I provided awhile ago proved that Kirk was saying that very thing. How many times must you be proved wrong before you’ll allow yourself to admit it. An honest person admitting they are wrong is far more respectable than a liar, guess which one you chose to be?
If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
You can’t. 🤷♀️
Nah, she spelled ‘conservative’ correctly.
They have to find a way to blame trans people. It’s further than trans panic bullshit because it’s not just about absolving the criminal anymore. We (the trans community) must be guilty of all societal herpes.
if someone quotes Leviticus saying gay people should be stoned to death, and calls that "God's perfect law," it's accurate to say they called for gay people to be stoned to death. Likewise, it's inaccurate to say they never called for it. bc I can parse language and understand how humans communicate
He did not say what you claim and the article you link doesn’t support that lie you told in any way. You’ve been provided with links that disprove your position at least twice now. Why do you think lying (you, specifically lying) will convince anyone?
Life is not too short argue, just too short to admit you’re wrong, huh? Do you consider yourself an honest person? If so, upon what do you base that conclusion? (Noted above that someone provided the same conversation that proves your initial position wrong. And you’re, again, ignoring it.)
💜
I hope you all read this from me.
You are wrong. I think everyone can see that. Weird how your life wasn’t too short to lie in defense of a terrible person in the first place.
Showed you the video. You showed me nothing. 🤷♀️
Your claim (in your own words): “Kirk was saying the Bible said all kinds of stuff you should ignore, like 'stone gays'.” The video I linked clearly shows that’s not at all what Kirk said in context. You refusing to engaging on that that point is dishonest.
Stephen King backing down doesn’t disprove the video I linked in any way. Ignoring it also does not do that. Starting to think you’re not engaging in good faith…
😂
I already know you don’t. This took less than a minute to find. youtu.be/CceJpiUPgPU?...
You have the actual audio and or video that provides better context? Please link.
What you said isn’t even remotely true. There is no video you describe. This is the actual context. youtu.be/CceJpiUPgPU?...
*Where
Please, given the context, in what way was he not, in fact, endorsing this? We’re is the alleged “false spin?”
You’re quibbling over the smallest detail of the conversation about what he actually stood for. That only serves to obscure his actual position and thereby launder his reputation.
Please explain the functional difference between using the exact words you posted and what he actually said in context.
That he did not, in fact, say those exact words about gay people, but he only used other exact words to give the same meaning is functional no different. To pretend otherwise is dishonest. This is the context and it doesn’t improve a thing.
Yes, he was.
These were his opinions. They were not moderate in any sense of the word. One can decry violence and, at the same time, not pretend the victim was at all a good person.
Incredible. Trump drags the reputation of a highly regarded economist, first Black woman to be a Fed gov, thru the mud claiming she committed mortgage fraud. But the documents his appointee to run Fannie & Freddie got for him & that he said showed fraud don’t actually say that.
1930 BEACH STREET. 1930 BEACH STREET. 1930 BEACH STREET. Join us this morning in protesting ICE and advocating for our neighbors trapped in the Broadview Processing Facility.
A notice to the #wargaming, #miniatures & #ttrpg community: Red Box Games has decided they don't want our business. Thank you, Ian, for sharing this. #warhammer #40k #aos #nerdlings #turnip28 #1490doom #trenchcrusade #dnd #pathfinder #tabletop
You can write this only if, by virtue of your income, identity, or both, you are utterly removed from the consequences of politics. To pretend that the racist, misogynistic, anti-gay vileness that Kirk spent his life spreading is secondary to the fact that he spread it "the right way" is appalling.
One can decry the violence, but they never, ever have to hand it to him for anything. Ever.
This is a choice you made to help fascists. It will be remembered when they’re gone.
Actual positions of Kirk. He was a racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, islamophobic, piece of trash.
He said gay people should be stoned to death. He said that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a mistake. He was a sad, vicious bigot and senseless waste of human life. We need to look at the hate he brought into the world sober with both eyes open. Don’t shame people into dishonesty.
Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
It is, in fact, not.
As always, be careful what you say on the internet. We don’t need to go to the gulag today
Won’t somebody think of the technically-not-a-landlord lordlords?!?
Trying to explain this to my (self-proclaimed) “supportive” family while they treat me like a loon destroyed my mental health for years. I don’t tell them anymore, they don’t check on me, I’ll wave to them from the trains, I guess.
They’re staging out of North Chicago. Normal traffic will disrupt them. The Eden’s/Kennedy merge will wreck their response times and going down Sheridan to Lake Shore Drive will absolutely burn out the fortitude of any Texas driver.
Claims adjusters uncontaminated by all that pesky empathy and morality that humans bring to the table? Trump needs to be sent to the Hague and his billionaire backers with him.
It’s been said that there are no stupid ideas. You proved them wrong.
Authors!!!
Yes. Yes, he is.
If they take the expressway, they’ll come down Edens and will absolutely experience the Kennedy merge. 🙂
I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators. Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!
And remember, especially under military occupation, that *every* day is Shut The Fuck Up Friday. videos.parleur.net/w/enn8e5Rw65...
North Chicago is so far away from the city. Protesters will be able to shut them down with little effort. Fun times.
Fun fact, they’re staging from North Chicago which, despite the name, is very far north of the city, like halfway to Wisconsin. It would be incredibly easy to jam up the main arterials they’re going to use. It’s so easy that the interstate jams itself without their extra traffic every single day.
Oh btw if you use ICE as a threat for any reason I hope you burn in hell
There’s no way this is going to end badly. I hope every governmental tool making these decisions (from DeSantis to Bobby Jr) will be sent to the Hague to stand trial for every life lost.
In Australia jumpers are called “jigmiddens.”
we were already in sports and you didn't even know it because it's actually perfectly fair for us to play. we were already accessing transition as teens and preteens in most places and you didn't know because it's THE SINGLE MOST EFFECTIVE MEDICAL TREATMENT IN HISTORY.
My dog just shrieked at the volume of that whistle. Yikes.
Can someone with a very large account share this, please? Northwestern Professor Nina Kraus has been missing since 9am on September 1.
He’s back and dumber than ever!
Very interesting algorithm analysis, which explains the repeated problems with content moderation getting in the way of social justice tldr: it's always good to block a TERF or a white supremacist or any other type of fascist original post: www.tumblr.com/chiptrillino...
Find out why people are responding to you this way THEN comment. Do the smallest bit of work.
Figure out why we won’t commit to a single candidate (three years before the election) that platforms Nazis like Bannon and Kirk THEN comment.
How often do you spend a weekend rebuilding your old cow? Seems like a waste of money unless you’re spending a lot of time fixing and tuning cows.
He has no hair, that’s the thing that makes it look weird. There should be a bit below the cap just forward of his ears and lots on the back of his head. If it’s a wig, he’s not wearing it. If his hair is natural, it’s been shaved off.
The Department of Homeland Security posted an image of the ideological moral allocation heat map. They’re calling people who care about what happens to other living beings beyond just their family and friends, losers and their opinions invalid. /
Thunderstruck and A Wizard’s Staff Has a Knob On The End
Unhoused people, too, so far. I’m sure the list don’t stop at two.
It’s three years until the election, stop pretending Newsom is the only choice. Asking me to surrender my rights so you can retain yours because you’re too lazy to find a better candidate is messed up. Do you consider yourself a good person? If so, upon what do you base that conclusion?
This is a valuable thread for authors outside the US whose work has been stolen and who might therefore have a claim under this class action.
why did psa book matt yglesias yo be the “other side” on trans rights? well they’d asked me for ideas of someone else to “debate” and i had offered a few good ones imho: pete buttigieg and seth moulton. then they asked for someone to the right of them.
...gonna drop this here for those who seek a more thorough & less flippant response: bsky.app/profile/juli...
I can hope to win the lottery, too. Roughly the same odds.
I should happily march up my death so you can live a long, worry free, one? What a great offer! Still, going to have to decline. Find a better candidate and try again.
If they haven’t the empathy to care about who gets hurt, it’s easy to push the buttons on the grievance gift. There’s a lot of money to be had being a a right wing sociopath.
It’s easy to understand why narcissists fall so readily into the right wing grift.
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
Representatives mentioned in this article Rep. Laura Gillen (D-New York) Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-New York) Rep. Gabe Vasquez (D- New Mexico) Rep. Rep. Greg Stanton (D- Arizona) If these are your reps, let them know how you feel about this
The white moderate more interested in order than justice, I think MLK mentioned you.
There’s nothing centrists love more than the status quo. He’s a return to shit Dem candidates.
Raging for the machine. Centrists suck butt.
How did this dipshit convince anyone at all that he’s smart?
Does he? Or does he just want to justify not improving anything?
Not only is that not true, insurance companies actually do that very thing. People who literally have zero medical knowledge override the actual educated, trained, experienced professionals and d decide what they feel patients actually should get based on insurance company profits.
That’s a war crime and just raw evil.
It’s easy to settle for 99% Hitler when cis-het white guys have nothing at stake.
I deny that. Centrism is a bad strategy that loses elections.
Heads up: ICE took a Brazilian trans woman in DC. Her name is Alice Correia Barbosa. No one has been able to find her. If anyone hears anything at all, please DM me or reach out to OP on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/washington...
Just a little racism is okay? As a treat? Really?!?
This is so important… Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov 🧵