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Do you have any fucking idea what a purity test is, or is your grasp of the English language as tenuous as your grasp of politics?
"Purity test is when you make a comparison, and the more comparison you make, the more purity test it is"
No, you don't understand, unsurprisingly.
His criticism of MLK is invalid because the criticism is invalid on its own fucking merits, not because he was part of the Nation of Islam. My comment about before/after was not about the section quoted in the OP, but the general statement you made that:
Wherein I pointed out that he had a stark difference in his views before and after he left the cult of the Nation of Islam.
I see your grasp of the English language is, indeed, as tenuous as your grasp on politics.
What the fuck does that have to do with the criticism?
"Malcolm X talked about infighting amongst Civil Rights leaders and had newspaper clippings of this; therefore, MLK Jr. was a filthy shitlib and a figurehead who achieved nothing"?
What the fuck
Okay, I see you're carrying on an argument with the imaginary friend in your head, completely divorced from anything being typed here. You have fun with that.
ML "The riot is the language of the unheard" K Jr.?
Jesus fucking Christ.
So which is it? Is Malcolm X, in your view, saying that civil unrest caused the Civil Rights Act, or is he saying that it was insufficient to cause the Civil Rights Act?
Or, most likely, are you living in an alternate reality of your own fantasy wherein there was a revolution that caused the Civil Rights Act after overthrowing Congress?
The answer from you, of course, I realize full well will be "Whatever I need to say to continue upholding my asinine position with no relation to reality."
Which is not only asinine and disproven by historical fact, but utterly irrelevant to the issue of MLK Jr., who explicitly presented his movement as the alternative to brewing violence, as shown by the quote on riots that you dismissed and are now reversing your position on.
What the fuck do you think a revolution is.