Emma Watson-speech about women's rights in front of UN

[Mordecai]

Ugh. We should not being encouraging people to be more emotionally open. Just no.

And we should listen to random celebrities because?

(Haven't looked at link and don't intend to because I don't listen to random celebrities.)

Nothing more annoying than a politically involved celebrity.

Indeed. What a horrible young lady. How dare she speak out about something she feels passionate about! Who does she think she is? Stupid naive liberal woman, caring about other people. Screw that liberal BS. She should spend less time talking and more time barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen like a good woman. Now that's real family values. Liberal women, I tell you, the nerve of them...

[Mordecai]

Ugh. We should not being encouraging people to be more emotionally open. Just no.

And we should listen to random celebrities because?

(Haven't looked at link and don't intend to because I don't listen to random celebrities.)

Nothing more annoying than a politically involved celebrity.

Indeed. What a horrible young lady. How dare she speak out about something she feels passionate about! Who does she think she is? Stupid naive liberal woman, caring about other people. Screw that liberal BS. She should spend less time talking and more time barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen like a good woman. Now that's real family values. Liberal women, I tell you, the nerve of them...

I'm just as irritated by male celebrities who do the same, and I'm fairly certain King is as well.

Are you trying to convince me or yourself?

You always have to read Ernest's posts carefully. 

A little off-topic (I only stumbled across Ernest's post in another thread; I haven't watched the video and I don't imagine I really care one way or the other about what she might say; I'm not even sure I know which one Emma Watson is), but as long as we're talking about MLK I think it's fair to call him a centrist.  Much like Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and, for that matter, angus. 

Progressives like to think he was assassinated because he was moving in an anti-capitalist direction, and that only their agenda would please Martin.  Traditionalists like to think that they are the true heirs to King's legacy, and that he might just agree with them on same-sex marriage and the fetus' right to life.  What is he in today's political spectrum?  Sure, he was outspoken in support of the poor and on labor issues but what would he have thought of the increasing radicalization and fetishism of violence of the New Left?  He was a humanist and civil rights activist in response to the condition of the times in which he lived.  Nowadays, in terms of the political compass for example, he'd probably be a bit left of center and maybe just in the middle on the authoritarian/anarchy axis.  -3, 0 perhaps.  Just a guess.

MLK was a socialist…

If conservatives really want a black guy to cling on to they should use their own black conservatives and stop trying to conservatize MLK. The guy was the furthest thing from a conservative, regardless of whatever time period you want to pull out of your ass, and he disparaged Goldwater and Reagan so that right there goes to show you how little of a conservative he really was.