• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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    6 months ago

    The Black Panther Party is your standard for making a difference.

    Yeah, that’s about what I expected.

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        6 months ago

        The group that came in at the tail end of the civil rights movement, murdered its own members, and then was effectively shuttered by the FBI?

        THAT’S your standard for success?

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          A movement that helped secure the ADA with their support, and had the full weight of the state security apparatus turned against them. An organization that was so unimpactful the FBI assassinated their leaders.

          They also started a lunch program that spread to multiple cities and was successful enough that the government stepped in to start one of their own so that they could not look as bad in comparison.

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            A movement that helped secure the ADA with their support

            Almost a decade after the height of their power, you associate the Black Panther Party’s support in giving meals to a disability rights protest as being important to the ADA, which itself would not be passed for another decade and a half after that.

            That’s… that’s really what we’re reaching for?

            An organization that was so unimpactful the FBI assassinated their leaders.

            Yeah, I’m not sure that “The FBI under Hoover, which was terrified that homosexuals were secret Communist infiltrators, was scared of them” is exactly a great rational assessment of their threat.

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            Against Black folk, since we both know that Reagan and the establishment were utterly uninterested in disarming white folk at the time.

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      Yes, directly supporting and feeding children, supported gay rights, and promoted leftist theory and community building is good.

      Hating on the Black Panther Party is about what I expected of you, funny enough.

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        Loving the Black Panther Party for having a nice ten points and a horrible record of not actually accomplishing anything substantial and murdering members of their own organization for not being sufficiently pure is about what I expected of an ML.

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          Helping children not starve isn’t anything substantial, got it. They had a lasting impact, and the US murdered Fred Hampton because the organization was effective.

          Never said I was an ML, but you sure do love lying about others when you get scratched.