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Jr., Martin Luther King, PETA, Progressives, racism, Twitter
Progressive group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) crossed the red line this week when they attempted to co-opt the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. in pursuit of furthering their agenda via Twitter.
RT if you agree with Martin Luther King Jr, today & EVERY DAY! #NeverBeSilent http://t.co/4FDCrNlLyK pic.twitter.com/5nNMiaEueO
— PETA (@peta) January 20, 2014
“If we are 2 honor Dr. King today, we must continue 2 seek justice for EVERYONE who is disadvantaged” #NeverBeSilent http://t.co/2C6630zzyQ
— PETA (@peta) January 20, 2014
Originally, I thought that PETA might not have been prepared for the outrage that followed but as I understand it, this is not the first time that PETA has been accused of being racially insensitive.
Per USA Today, in 2012, PETA displayed a photograph of “lynched men next to a photo of a hanging cow….In 2009, members dressed in Ku Klux Klan garb to protest the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, arguing that the American Kennel Club was trying to create a “master race” when it comes to purebred dogs.”
Below are a handful of the responses elicited by PETA’s actions. Warning: One or two tweets might contain raw language.
.@peta I’m going to eat steak *AND* chicken for dinner tonight because of this.
— Jacob (@ohholybutt) January 20, 2014
How not to celebrate MLK Day: PETA compares animal cruelty to slavery (again) http://t.co/Tm10AjbrBq @brentinmock in @grist — Greg Hanscom (@ghanscom) January 21, 2014
I have a dream that one day PETA will shut their stupid tofu holes https://t.co/Wxa2xOTxjR — David Burge (@iowahawkblog) January 20, 2014
PETA sparks Twitter backlash with MLK tweets http://t.co/iIocwfINl3 @USATODAY PETA shows as much disrespect 4MLK than 4 those await cures
— Raemdoncke (@ERaemdonck) January 22, 2014
UPDATED the post about PETA appropriating MLK: http://t.co/IXm3gqBgYW
— Some Asshole (@assholeofday) January 21, 2014
@ChrisLoesch @peta PETA believes Black People are Animals
— Rev Dave Shaver (@DaveShaver) January 20, 2014
@ChrisLoesch @peta today we honor Martin Luther King Jr & the struggle of tea party patriots who are harassed and maligned. #liberalsSuck
— Moshe Cohen (@njnets186) January 20, 2014
I’ll never forget when they turned the firehoses on the Yorkies in Birmingham. MT@peta: Today we honor MLK Jr. & plight of tortured animals
— Ride It Down (@Beer__Wolf) January 20, 2014
My moms has decided that the ppl of @peta aren’t smart enough to realize that’s what they were saying. Dumb fucks. @ItsNotHarold
— Lala McEvil (@LalaMcEvil) January 20, 2014
Ahhhhhh Progressives, give them enough rope and they will expose themselves and their disdain for Black Americans.
Various Progressive groups have co-opted the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. to push their agenda. In the process, propagandists, Marxist elites in collusion with so-called Black leaders and the mainstream media have either remained silent and are complicit re-writing King’s legacy and that of the Civil Rights movement.
Not much better, Black America has for the most part remained silent while Progressive organizations abuse King’s legacy, that of the Civil Rights movement and those who do speak out are often ignored.
As with most Progressives, PETA’s ideology, outweighs the fact that their ads are offensive.
LINKS:
http://www.peta.org/features/martin-luther-king-jr-animal-rights/#/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/01/20/peta-tweets-mlk-day-twitter/4660443/
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Throughout his participation in the civil rights movement, King was criticized by many groups. This included opposition by more militant blacks such as Nation of Islam member Malcolm X .
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Any conservative attempting to point out progressive ‘co-opting’ of MLK’s legacy would be intellectually dishonest if they did not also point out that much of what King stood for late in his life would be considered extremely “anti-American” by those same conservatives. This is the same MLK who said, “I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government” and, “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
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