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Sorry for posting something from last year but I just stumbled upon it and it's just too chefs-kiss not to share, made me laugh multiple times.

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[–] nightshade@hexbear.net 35 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My side of history is William F. Buckley ... Martin Luther King

In the 1950s and early 1960s, Buckley opposed federal civil rights legislation and expressed support for continued racial segregation in the South
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Buckley visited South Africa in the 1960s on several paid fact-finding missions in which he distributed publications that supported the South African government's policy of apartheid.

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Conservatives have to force themselves to pretend to like MLK because he’s a universal American hero and they cannot directly say they opposed his beliefs. But other conservatives may literally only grew up learning about his “I have a dream speech,” and only care about the whole “judging by one’s character” line and nothing more. I think he was also a republican, so they have no choice but to say they like him as well as Lincoln because they want to monopolize the “anti racism” discussion

He is quite literally their one black friend that they always bring up unprompted to excuse their racist behavior