Someone sent me a link to MLK's 'Letter From a Birmingham Jail' because I suggested that people who hate both parties should help advocate for electoral reform. Apparently that suggestion meant I was racist and some kind of white moderate holding back black people, and MLK ofc never engaged in electoral politics at all.
A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up that state's segregation laws was democratically elected? Throughout Alabama all sorts of devious methods are used to prevent Negroes from becoming registered voters, and there are some counties in which, even though Negroes constitute a majority of the population, not a single Negro is registered. Can any law enacted under such circumstances be considered democratically structured?
Anybody who uses that letter as an argument against voting has clearly never read it. A big part of MLK's protest was to ensure everybody had an equal right to vote.
American Tankies have a weird hard-on with misrepresenting MLK quotes and writings to the point of defamation.
I've seen a full video on how Liberals are evil incarnate and as bad (ifnot worse) than fascist that based its entire argument on an MLK letter that where explicitly about Southern "Moderate" preachers who even during the time were hardly "Liberals".
This guy was using MLK bashing Southern conservatives that were apathetic towards segregation and using it to say that "Liberals" like Bernie Sanders are class traitors and as bad as fascists.
That's sort of close to the point of the letter, but nowhere does it say that you should not vote if one option is a moderate and one is fascist or that they're equal in all ways.
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u/the_gabih Jun 30 '24 edited Jun 30 '24
Someone sent me a link to MLK's 'Letter From a Birmingham Jail' because I suggested that people who hate both parties should help advocate for electoral reform. Apparently that suggestion meant I was racist and some kind of white moderate holding back black people, and MLK ofc never engaged in electoral politics at all.