re: Why did none of our great progressive thinkers here decry confederate statues?

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Do I need to shout about the value of the blue shirt I'm wearing in case someone in the future deems wearing blue shirts offfensive and tries to ban them?

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this insane and irrational demand for full adherence to the message is going to cannibalize some icons

does anybody think that MLK was progressive on gay or trans rights? some don't

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When the student union considered the question, some students asked, “Does the MLK quote represent us today?” The problem wasn’t so much the message, but the fact that it only focused on racial diversity instead of gender identity.

“Diversity is so much more than race,” said one sophomore architecture major. “Obviously race still plays a big role. But there are people who identify differently in gender and all sorts of things like that.”

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i mean when the message of martin luther king, jr. isn't good enough...