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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Comparing pro-Meta tech bros who want #Threads to interpolate with #Mastodon to civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King is WILD.

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• Martin Luther King a revolutionary hero in the age of racial segregation because he told black people "stay safe in the segregated areas that the white man has carved for you, and avoid going to any places where they usually go?" No. Quite the opposite. He gave marginalized people courage by inviting them to sit on the bus next to a white supremacist. He invited them to break the cage and mix into white-only areas. He invited them to be part of the real world, and show others that they were humans just like them. Not to seclude themselves. Was it as easy as a walk at the park? Of course not. In fact, a lot of blood was shed. But would the US have ever got to a better stage than the 1960s if those marginalized minorities were invited by their own peers to hide themselves from the real world? I don't think so.