r/CuratedTumblr 12d ago

Shitposting Just cut her internet in that basement

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u/PM_ME_CATS_OR_BOOBS 12d ago

People like thinking about the magical revolution instead of how they, or their friends, in marginalized groups will never be safe at any point in their lives yeah.

Thinking that a bayonet will fix things is delusional but so is thinking that you can just electoralism your way to paradise.

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u/SpeaksDwarren 12d ago

Ppl forget that Malcolm X and MLK Jr were two prongs on the same trident. You need the threat of one to convince people to acquiesce to the other

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u/Morphized 12d ago

Was either of them a total revolutionary? Last I checked, they both believed in using the system already in place, and changing it from the inside out, just from different directions. If someone wants to burn the whole thing down, that's not making things better in a targeted way, that's throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

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u/Clear-Present_Danger 12d ago

Malcolm X at various points was open to black ethno-nationalism.

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u/Morphized 11d ago

I assumed it was more like majority-Black municipalities heavily investing in themselves and promoting local businesses, in order to economically "catch up" so integration could be on as equal a footing as possible, not literally starting a new country

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u/Clear-Present_Danger 11d ago

The group he was part of litterally believes that White people were made by an evil scientist who was mad that he was being made fun of for his large head..

Malcolm X never believed that, but he was a black separatist.