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another side to "we were always against this" is denying that we were fighting against it, same exampe as Apartheid in South Africa, ignoring the role Cuba and other anti-imperialist countries had.
Fuckers aren't even pretending with South Africa. They see the deteriorating conditions and want it to go back to apartheid.
And this is why we learn history. We learn history to see it bleed into our present and future, even that ghoul lib
knew that.
yes this is one of the main purposes of Liberals and Democrats appropriating MLK and the civil rights movement as their own. They can pretend that the Democrats did anything at all to help the movement, and they can erase the people who actually were involved (the black working class, communists, student movements, immigrant right groups, etc) and make it seem like it was much more mainstream/popular than it was at the time.
MLK had something like a 20% approval rating among white people at the time before his death, he was widely hated by the mainstream white society. You would never know that going off how people treat him as a demi-god on par with Abraham Lincoln and George Washington today (other members of the American civic religion pantheon)