It's MLK Day, When Good White Folks Celebrate MLK Chasing The Snakes Out Of Kentucky
Or maybe it was Ireland...I never could keep that straight
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Today is, of course, the federal holiday honoring the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King. As one of America’s foremost civil-rights martyrs, MLK has set a standard this country has yet to meet. So yes, we have much to strive for, which is why noted know-it-all and Conservative authority Ben Shapiro decided to weigh in on MLK’s legacy.
Shapiro is most famous for allegedly never having given a woman an orgasm. Sadly, that’s a subject best left for another day. Today we’re talking about Professor Shapiro’s take on the day MLK declared that White folks would rule the world.
Today is the day! The day where white conservatives look out upon the country they are pretty sure God gave to THEM AND THEM ONLY, and then quickly try to come up with a statement that suggests they like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and wouldn't have been one of the white supremacists he fought against if they'd been alive at the same time.
Ben Shapiro admonished us all for not understanding which of Dr. King's ideas were the good ones we're supposed to follow, as opposed to the bad ones….
We would check to see if Shapiro's work wife Matt Walsh also had something racist to say, but Walsh is busy taking his two days of paternity leave after the birth of twins. Walsh does not like paternity leave, because babies do not bond with daddies that young, according to him. Maybe they bond when daddy helps them send their first anti-LGBTQ+ tweet or something, we dunno.
Of course, you might have been taught about MLK’s speeches, letters from the Birmingham jail, or some such propaganda, but rest assured that Ben Shapiro is here to set you straight.
Oh, and there’s also über-creepy Pastor Jared Lahmeyer, who has the personality of a Gestapo general. We’ll get to him in just a bit.
Oh, come on. I enjoy Ben Shapiro. He has all the depth, warmth, and intelligence of an incoming ICBM, but he makes up for all that with the absolute certainty that he knows of which he speaks.
He absolutely doesn’t, which is what makes him so thoroughly entertaining.
He may be a White supremacist, but he lacks even the slightest degree of self-awareness. Not only that, but he’s an unwitting victim of the Dunning-Kruger Effect, making him worth the admission price.
Then again, the GOP is the party of clueless White supremacists who think they can co-opt the message of a Black spiritual leader because it serves their purpose. Nice try, y’all. Their version of MLK insults everyone in the Black community seeking to honor the REAL MLK’s legacy of spirituality, service, and non-violence.
So, without further ado, here’s today’s coffee-spew moment, presented courtesy of Pastor Jackson Lahmeyer:
That Lahmeyer sees nothing amiss with his ridiculous assertion that if MLK were alive today he’d be MAGA is a clue to his over-inflated self-importance and undercooked sense of history.
You probably forgot who Jackson Lahmeyer is already because
all neckbeard white conservative Christian guys look alike andhe was never that famous to begin with, but he's the extremely creepy Christian nationalist "Pastors for Trump" guy who very unsuccessfully tried to primary Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford last election cycle. He tried for extra credit in his tweet by pretending Dr. King would have been a white supremacist MAGA lunatic if he was alive today[.]
Yes, today is when racist White Conservative Christian heterosexuals annually claim MLK as their very own. Truthfully, MLK almost certainly wouldn’t allow them to occupy the same room. Yet these mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging nitwits somehow believe that they’re JUST LIKE MLK!!
Sure, and I’m Margaret Thatcher.
So, enjoy MLK Day…or, as some might know it, Right-wing Hypocrisy Day. Oh, wait; isn’t that every day??
Even though Shapiro, Lahmeyer, and others on the Far-Right never cease trying to claim MLK’s legacy as their own, it doesn’t take much effort to puncture their bubble of ignorance and arrogance. But, rather than delve too far into that, I thought I’d let a few others demonstrate their perception of MLK’s legacy:
So, in a world of darkness, be a light. In a world of pain, help people heal. In a world of anger, be a beacon of joy.
And in a world where people can’t or won’t, find a way to do it, whatever “it” may be, not just today, but every day. Kindness and compassion should always be the rule, not the exception, no?
Neo-fascists attempting to enfranchise the Rev. Dr. King as one of their own is a special form of outrage for me. While I cannot claim to be a expert in the field, I have in fact published in the peer-reviewed literature on an aspect of his philosophy. So I know enough to start blowing blood-vessels when I read lies such as:
-- He voted Republican! (A bald face lie. Anyone claiming to know how he voted is lying, since no one actually has any information on that subject.)
-- He was a Baptist minister, so he was a conservative! (The fucking SBC literally changed their rules because of King so that no one like him would ever rise to a position of notice withing the So. Baptist Convention ever again.)
-- The "judged by character rather than color" bit is such a vicious reversal of what he was saying, it is on the same plane as claiming Hitler was an advocate for the Jewish people.
etc.