[boppo1]

The crazy people complaining about "cultural marxism" weren't totally wrong. A broken clock is right twice a day. There are people who sincerely think companies should hire employees of color more-or-less just for their being of color.

Which is pretty terrible for talented people of color who are making material contributions because it erodes their peers confidence that they're actually qualified.

[Dalewyn]

It's hilarious that those loons have come full circle to the point that they say people should be judged by the color of their skin rather than the quality of their character.

MLK would be rolling in his grave.

[fidgewidge]

MLK probably wouldn't be rolling in his grave but rather be supporting what's happening today, sadly:

https://edwest.substack.com/p/would-martin-luther-king-be-an...

[56friends]

“This post is for paid subscribers”. Truly inspiring!

[fidgewidge]

Oh right. Here are some key paragraphs

> But would King have opposed Kendism? Although conservatives like to quote his brilliant speech on the content of a man’s character, he was also quite explicitly in favour of quotas and discrimination measures if they favoured his group. As King said: ‘if a city has a 30 percent Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30 percent of the jobs in a particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas, as the case almost always happens to be.’

> King may have believed in all sorts of preferential treatment, not just on account of race but also income and class, but then he was quite explicitly a socialist. Racial equality was part of a more general belief in social equality between rich and poor (that these two goals inevitably and always clash is one of many problems making this dream not entirely realisable).

> As Matthew Yglesias has written: ‘Today’s conservatives often like to quote Martin Luther King Jr. as an apostle of “colorblind” policy as an aspirational goal. But King was a socialist who argued for a radical redistribution of material resources.’

[56friends]

Thanks for copying this over! I am guilty of quoting that famous speech too. Probably should stop doing that and read MLK’s works in more detail.