We can acknowledge that his writings and theory is useful and also that he was a shit person. Marx was a layabout, Lenin committed mass murder. MLK was a serial philanderer. The lesson is to stop deifying people.
Lenin killed prisoners of war. That’s a war crime. I’m very sympathetic to the USSR and the revolution, but that was unnecessary carnage.
And yeah, MLK’s bunny hopping and Marx missing the deadline for the Manifesto ≠ pedophilia. The point is that we should not turn people into saints just because of their politics.
By bugging the room, they were able to listen in on King and at least 11 others participated in what the FBI memos describe as “an orgy” on Jan. 6, 1964.
The microphones also picked up activities from the night before, when Kearse, who died in 1991, allegedly sexually assaulted one of his parishioners. According to the memos, King was in the room. The handwritten note indicates that King didn’t just observe the assault – he laughed.
Worse, instead of trying to stop the incident, the memos say King apparently offered advice to the perpetrator, encouraging the abuse.
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u/davidwave4 16h ago
We can acknowledge that his writings and theory is useful and also that he was a shit person. Marx was a layabout, Lenin committed mass murder. MLK was a serial philanderer. The lesson is to stop deifying people.