CNN’s Take On What MLK Made “Cool” Is Straight Up SHAMEFUL…
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January 15, 2018It’s MLK day…
So CNN wants to let everyone know how great he was…
– He's an environmental hero
– He was a socialist before it was cool
– He never let a political disagreement turn nasty
Many Americans have turned MLK into a safe holiday mascot, but some say King still speaks in ways that go beyond civil rights https://t.co/zMBtSBfPIm pic.twitter.com/Y8gl4Kx7lP
— CNN (@CNN) January 15, 2018
First off, who exactly is turning MLK into a “safe holiday mascot?”
Second… and WORST OF ALL… Socialism is cool now? I missed the memo. But thanks for letting us know how you really feel, CNN!
Many people vaguely know that King opposed the Vietnam War and talked more about poverty in his later years. But King also had a lot to say about issues not normally associated with civil rights that still resonate today, historians and activists say.
If you’re concerned about inequality, health care, climate change or even the nastiness of our political disagreements, then King has plenty to say to you. To see that version of King, though, we have to dust off the cliches and look at him anew.
If you’re more familiar with your smartphone than your history, try this: Think of King not just as a civil rights hero, but also as an app — his legacy has to be updated to remain relevant.
Here are three ways we can update our MLK app to see how he spoke not only to his time, but to our time as well:
Update our MLK app?
Are you SERIOUS?!
WHO WROTE THIS.
I mean… I understand CNN feels the need to pander to millennials… but are their readers really so stupid that they need to think of MLK as an “app.”
(Don’t answer that question.
Anyway, the second app update is that “He was a socialist before it was cool”
There was a time in American politics when calling someone a socialist was a slur. Not anymore, at least for many younger Americans who are developing a distrust of capitalism.
One of the most popular politicians in recent times is Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-described Democratic Socialist who almost captured the Democratic nomination for president. A 2016 Harvard University poll said 51% of young Americans — 18- to-29-year-olds — oppose capitalism. And a poll conducted the next year by YouGov and the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation found that most American millennials preferred to live in a socialist country than a capitalist one.
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG.
Ship those idiots off to Venezuela, were they will JOYFULLY feast upon the carcasses of feral dogs.
SOCIALISM IS NOT COOL. IT NEVER WILL BE COOL. STOP BEING SO FREAKING STUPID.
Socialism? Cool? pic.twitter.com/xo6qwu3hj0
— Texas Freedom Ninjas (@TexasForRand) January 15, 2018
"socialist before it was cool"? I'm sorry, what? https://t.co/xk3s8HArWD
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) January 15, 2018
My how narratives change. I remember when, if a conservative called King a socialist, they'd catch a list of shit.
— ConservativeLA (@ConservativeLA) January 15, 2018
You hear that Venezuela? Your people may be starving, but at least CNN thinks you're cool.
— ⟵First GOP President (@gopcog) January 15, 2018
So cool. So hip!
…So stupid.
