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Boosted by jwz:
spencerbeswick@kolektiva.social ("Spencer Beswick") wrote:

White people today: the protesters in LA are hurting their own cause, they should be like MLK and the Civil Rights Movement!

Meanwhile, white people during the Civil Rights Movement:

Screenshot of contemporary polling of white people on the 1960s Civil Rights Movement that shows that overwhelming majorities disapprove of the Freedom Riders, lunch counter sit-ins, and the 1963 March on Washington, and they think all of these will "hurt the advancement of Negro rights."
1967 political cartoon depicting a reporter interviewing Martin Luther King in front of the scene of an obvious riot, with MLK saying "I plan to lead another non-violent march tomorrow."