MLK Day 2013 Twitter Hall of Fame

by marina / 4

In honor of the great man himself, I tried to do something a little different with this Hall of Fame. Rather than finding the biggest car wrecks, I at least made a passing attempt to stick to the positive side of things. However, there are a few things I want to clear up, which I never realized people might not know about Dr. King, but thanks to twitter I have now learned some of you have no earthly clue about.

Today is not his damn birthday, people! Nor is it the date of his assassination. Think about it. A fixed date can’t be the third Monday of Jan. every fucking year. It’s God damned impossible. His real birthday is Jan. 15, and his assassination day is April 4. The holiday is designed to fall near his birthday while still conforming to the Uniform Monday Holiday Act.

King was not a fucking Republican, nor was he conservative in any way. Stop saying this, it’s a damned lie. MLK was a radical advocate of non-violence in every avenue. He opposed the war in Vietnam, advocated for birth control and family planning, and his right hand man for many years was openly gay in a time when homosexuality was illegal. Dr. King was in Memphis trying to drum up support for striking union workers when he got fucking shot. So stop pretending that MLK would have had anything to do with the damn Republican party, especially the Republican party of today. He was disgusted by both parties when he was alive, he probably would feel much the same today. Also, that’s not the fucking point, jerks. All these assholes are being racist shitheads while pretending that 1. MLK would ever be on their shitty side and 2. that just because they’re not threatened by one black man that’s been dead for 50 years they get some kind of pass to defend a racist, sexist, homophobic party that no longer has any principals and only exists at the whim of the super rich. God Dammit.

I mean, MLK, as much as Gandhi, JFK, or any other human in history had is own problems and flaws. No man is a saint, but blatantly denying actual, research-able history just to prove your own stupid point (which is what? That smart people are Republicans too sometimes? Yeah, I know a few NBD) is intellectually lacking to say the least.

At least her heart’s in the right place.

Well, one of those things is actually irrelevant.

Maybe none of you guys are going to geek on the fact that Barack Obama was sworn into his 2nd term on MLK day, but I totally loved it.

Never refuse free food, no matter how racist it might be.

Cosmo tip?

There were a ton of these, but this one was the funniest.

OK, but that game had fucking save point problems. I think Dr. King is more of a Mass Effect kind of guy.

4 Replies to “MLK Day 2013 Twitter Hall of Fame”

  1. If MLK would have liked video games other than Pac-Man (everyone likes Pac-Man), he would have liked Portal. Mass Effect is too violent for his tastes.

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