Charlie Kirk and other young conservatives are launching a campaign to discredit the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. It’s a break from the older, historically inaccurate conservative tradition of pretending MLK was on their side.
Charlie Kirk and other young conservatives are launching a campaign to discredit the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. It’s a break from the older, historically inaccurate conservative tradition of pretending MLK was on their side.
The proposals you’ll likely be linking to are an attempt to circumvent the people’s refusal to accept that we’re all the same, by giving additional support to those marginalized groups. Since you can’t force people to not be racist, the next alternative is to try and offset how that racism closes doors off.
Things like affirmative action policies are an imperfect attempt at offsetting facts like how identical resumes, but one with a traditionally black name, will get substantially less offers from a wide variety of companies than the one with a white name. It’s basically a “this is why we can’t have nice things” response to continued racism and people pretending that racism isn’t still a problem.