I mean. The movie was really good but don't change the damn speech.

    • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      And thus every generation of leftists feels alone in their radicalism within the USA because they deny our rightful history. They seed doubt that we're doing something worthwhile by pretending it's always rebellion within a vacuum. They would rather cherry pick quotes and change legacies than admit that leftism has it's own history, going back decades and centuries.

      • nohaybanda [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I mean, yes, but it's not your enemies' job to do your propaganda for you. Of course they're never going to acknowledge how much socialism has done for human progress. It's up to us to connect the dots and tell our story.

  • AlexandairBabeuf [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    I feel like it'd be pretty hard to watch that and not get the impression they were reds but maybe im overestimating political literacy

    • DasKarlBarx [he/him,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah early on in the movie he quoted Mao (and said as much) talked about building class consciousness and enhancing the contradictions of capitalism.

      Hell even in the first video they play of him they play the "you don't fight capitalism with black capitalism were going to fight it with socialism"

  • Chapo_Trap_Horse [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    The Black Panthers were just militant woke idpol. Neera Tanden wearing a black beret with an M-16 making sure you don't talk shit about Nancy Pelosi's $100,000,000 net worth.

  • skippy_flippy [he/him]
    hexagon
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    4 years ago

    Still tells the story well it's hollywood but how many kids were taught about Fred Hampton in the US ya know?

    • skippy_flippy [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Just the quote "I believe I'm gonna die in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle" but his family is still alive his wife and kid who am I to dictate what should or should not be included.

      • DasKarlBarx [he/him,comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        I'll have to rewatch the scene. Maybe I filled it in myself but I could have sworn he said that or something really close. Haha