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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • Let me put my hazmat suit on and try to steel man Kirk’s comment. Can’t stress enough that this is not an endorsement of the guy.

    Deification is a slow gradual process that happens in the culture so of course it can’t be pinpointed. The way people quote just the “I have a dream” stuff but not the criticisms of capitalism or other more “extreme” views of MLK sort of point to a legendary development where people don’t actually celebrate the real man. This is used by the ruling class (they likely helped it happen too) to prevent any meaningful change (especially considering what they did to MLK) and just apply a veneer of progress while still oppressing and sowing division in the population.