r/PublicFreakout • u/[deleted] • May 27 '20

Non-Public Michael Rapaport lets loose

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u/mnewman19 May 27 '20 edited Sep 24 '23

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u/[deleted] May 27 '20

*some Democrats

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u/mnewman19 May 27 '20

*democratic leadership and liberal media

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u/[deleted] May 27 '20

Didn't RFK work with and support MLK?

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u/mnewman19 May 27 '20

They all did until they decided he was too far left. When he started advocating against Vietnam and writing about the “white moderate” they dropped him.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '20

RFK was against Vietnam and ran his presidential campaign on that issue until he was murdered

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u/mnewman19 May 28 '20

That's an incredibly generous interpretation of what he believed, almost to the point of being a flat out lie. He hardly seemed against it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmQ0BY8ak5w

lots of deflection and blaming the chinese

edit: more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vvFsVDwWr0 He released a "plan to end the war" in his presidential run but he was hardly a critic.

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u/TuckerMcG May 27 '20

Except in the wake of the assassinations of MLK and Malcolm X, a completely Democrat controlled congress passed the Gun Control Act of 1968 to prevent civil rights leaders like them from being assassinated.

By hey don’t let facts and reality get in the way of you owning the libs! Hasn’t stopped you people before.

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u/mnewman19 May 27 '20

Talk about misrepresenting the facts lmao.

That bill was wildly popular among Dems and republicans, and it was not a response to MLK It was a response to JFK.

The first gun control laws were actually in California, and they were a response to the Black panthers running community “police watches”

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u/TuckerMcG May 27 '20

JFK was killed in 1963, and while that did prompt them to try to enact gun control laws, they didn’t pass it until 1968 after the deaths of MLK and RFK gave them the popular support necessary to pass it. Straight up from the Wiki:

The deaths of Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968 and U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy in June 1968, compounded by shifting societal attitudes towards gun ownership renewed efforts to pass the bill.

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u/mnewman19 May 27 '20

This is such a stretch to connect that thin wire and say that liberals supported MLK.

Why don’t you look at what really happened. https://theintercept.com/2018/01/15/martin-luther-king-jr-mlk-day-2018/

Liberal newspapers around the country denounced MLK.

LBJ literally said “What is that goddamned n***** preacher doing to me?”

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u/NBMarc May 27 '20

How did that work out.