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Malcolm X

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Civil rights leader whose quotes were decontextualized and parroted during the 2020 George Floyd protests according to a critical reflection on that era

Mentions (9)
"This is easier to screen for if you're a visible minority as the leftie types will be falling over themselves to gush about how much they love Malcolm X (not an example, real thing that happened 3x at separate viewings, all diff people)"
Right wingers make the best flatmates · u/GGowaway · ↑646 · 2025-04-10
"Like, the self-aggrandizing, the self-flagellating on social media posts, the regurgitation of decontextualized MLK and Malcom X quotes over and over again, the insistence on that racialized policy brutality was 'the real pandemic' instead of COVID-19"
Every time I think of the George Floyd protests I cringe in embarrassment · u/HenrysAmazingAnimals · ↑536 · 2025-03-31
"Malcolm X talked about he didn't realise it until after he finished his Hajj that he never once talked or dealt with a woman while in the country."
"Civil Rights: Malcolm X was gonna start killing people and MLK got smoked"
"He was at the time, becoming increasingly hardened in his belief that racial segregation rather than reconciliation was the only way to solve the race problem in America. Then, in accordance with his Muslim faith, he made the pilgrimage to Mecca. In encountering Muslims from all over the world, he w"
Travelling sucks. Let's keep travelling · u/Mindless_Sign_2028 · ↑122 · 2023-04-04
"A better world has to be built and the only way it's going to be built is with extreme methods. And I, for one, will join in with anyone – I don't care what color you are – as long as you want to change this miserable condition that exists on this earth. Malcolm X, 1964 Speech."
Malcolm X - "I Don't Care What Color You Are" · FatimaMansioned · ↑53 · 2021-09-01
"These grievances are not Bolshevik or for the sake of equal outcomes, but rather for the sake of choice, freedom of association, meritocracy and the free market, in this context I am more similar to William Wallace rather than Malcom x."
covid quarantine is zoomercide · u/GardenVisible5323 · ↑43 · 2025-06-21
"Here's a clip of Malcom X and Phil Ochs calling out white liberals, just like we're doing!"
"A better world has to be built and the only way it's going to be built is with extreme methods. And I, for one, will join in with anyone – I don't care what color you are – as long as you want to change this miserable condition that exists on this earth."
Malcolm X - "I Don't Care What Color You Are" · u/FatimaMansioned · ↑53 · 2021-09-01
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