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Martin Luther King Jr.: Conservative or Liberal? 2017-05-01 05:59:56 Post No.
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So a lot of conservatives nowadays circulate the idea that Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican and a conservative, given the associations between the Democrats and the KKK especially in the South during the pre-Civil Rights era. How was King seen by conservatives/Republicans of the time and how did he view conservatives/Republicans? This is only dealing with the time period of the 1960s and the Civil Rights Movement and not the modern-day period of BlackLivesMatter/AllLivesMatter, political correctness, affirmative action, etc.
To me it seems like it's ambiguous:
Pro:
Billy Graham and Martin Luther King Jr. clearly had a close relationship, with Graham being a key supporter of the civil rights movement and sharing a close friendship with King. Nixon was the one who got serious on integrating schools in the South, supporting Brown vs. Board of Education in many Southern states that had not yet accepted it.
Against:
On the other hand, many prominent figures in the conservative movement/Republican party were also against the civil rights movement. Barry Goldwater was against the Civil Rights Act, which we can debate over whether it was the product of actual racism or more so governing philosophy (I tend to believe more so the latter over the former), but regardless it probably would've been supported by King. William F. Buckley Jr. was also against it, until later in his life when he flipped on it and said that he would've voted for the act.
So clearly there's a
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>>2740096
The Southern Strategy (in b4 it didn't happen) happened during his life.
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>>2740096
Blacks in the south are heavily conservative to this day. Anti-homosex, anti-abortion, very religious. The average white Republican from idk Ohio is a downright liberal compared to them.
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>>2740096
No, not in the slightest. Martin Luther King, Jr. was very nearly a communist, desiring a radical reorganization of our society on fairer social, racial, and economic lines. He was rejected throughout his entire career by the black bourgeoisie for his radicalism, and revered even by militant black activists for his revolutionary worldview.
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HE WAS IN MISSISSIPPI SUPPORTING A STRIKE WHEN HE WAS ASSASSINATED
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>>2740096
The entire premise of this discussion will always be flawed until we entirely remove the idea of Dems and Reps of the past being anything like they are today.
>Democrats owned slaves 200 years ago so aren't they the racists? I just wanna lynch blacks that's all
>Party of Lincoln
is an argument I hear fucking constantly and the irony is overwhelming.
It's ideology, not party names
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>>2740096
MLK was basically a non affiliated commie
>inb4 does that make him a democrat?
dems are conservative-centrists
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>>2740204
Dems in California utilize slave labor to this day, all over Napa valley.
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>>2740219
Rural areas in Cali are decidedly conservative, but also that issue is entirely class based, with Means-Owners exploiting economic migrants. It's not much of a racial issue, though the problems created by it are absolutely.
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>>2740096
By the end of his life, he had essentially come to a sort of Christian Revolutionary Socialism.
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>>2740146
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>>2740096
Liberal.
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MLK had pretty obvious commie leanings and was probably helped along by the Soviet Union at times and I don't say that disparagingly either.
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>>2740219
Well yeah, the Democrats are just our second most brutal capitalist party
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He was a Christian socialist. He may have been aligned with the GOP in the 1950s but supported Kennedy and Johnson.
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>>2740096
Martin Luther King Jr was a communist agent.
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MLK is a Liberal, not a "liberal". "liberals" are just useful idiots of socialists and the jewish banking elite.
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