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Daughter of Martin Luther King Jr calls out Amy Schumer, says MLK would have supported Israeli ceasefire (hexbear.net)

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https://nitter.net/BerniceKing/status/1719524029600612666

Context is that Amy Schumer is claiming that MLK was a zionist.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I think it's that they can pigeonhole antiracist or national liberation figures like those you listed into those issues alone, while ignoring their broader socialist politics. Lenin was a communist first and foremost, so it's harder to sanitize.