watch what you say about my icon

Following up on my post earlier today, here’s a story from TNR that provides evidence of the sick, treacly rot—the insane PC obsession with hurt feelings, as if it is words and not hurtful, harmful, obscene, illegal, immoral, and unconscionable actions that they should be worried about—that is eating away at progressives, Democrats, and what’s left of the left:

The latest maiming of the historical record and elementary historical logic has come over Martin Luther King, Jr., Lyndon B. Johnson–and the presidential primaries of 2008. The media echo chamber is now booming with charges that Senator Hillary Clinton has disparaged Dr. King, praised President Johnson in his stead, and thereby distorted the history of the civil rights movement. …

Now, Representative James E. Clyburn, the most prominent African-American elected official from South Carolina, has picked up the ever-changing story and implicitly accused Senator Clinton of denigrating Dr. King and the civil rights movement. “We have to be very, very careful about how we speak about that era in American politics,” Clyburn told The New York Times.

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Do we? Who is “we”? And Why?

What matters is the truth, not the tender feelings of the hypersensitive. And the truth is that Martin Luther King, Jr. was a massive hero to millions and millions and millions and millions of Americans, black and white.

He was strong, tough, honorable, noble, and unbending in the face of hideous real-life persecution. He shamed bigots throughout America and ennobled an entire nation. His accomplishments will not soon be matched by another human being.

Why do we have to be careful about talking about his era? Why?