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To: research99
Why not support a preference for philosophies by people who lived lives that are worthy of admiration?

Why not just read the philosophy?

Otherwise you might make the mistakes you're making like throwing in race murders and collectivist hatred and agitprop against a man who was killed precisely for rejecting such methods.

Tell me, is exhilarating to be so shameless, or is out just a job?

61 posted on 06/24/2014 2:29:02 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker
Otherwise you might make the mistakes you're making like throwing in race murders and collectivist hatred and agitprop against a man who was killed precisely for rejecting such methods.

Do you deny that with the exception of his later years where he learned to temper his rhetoric a bit, Malcolm X espoused precisely the "collectivist hatred" and racial violence that you claim to condemn? Admire him if you like, but don't demand that everyone else regards someone who vomits rhetoric about "White Devils" as some sort of conservative icon and hero.

If David Duke toned down some of his racial rhetoric and focused on fiscal conservatism and small government in his final years, you'd be understandable skeptical of him. So perhaps you can understand why many people similarly loathe Malcolm X.

148 posted on 06/26/2014 7:31:00 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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