Don’t You Dare Conflate MLK and Obama

[Summer Hathaway]

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"I agree, nobody can actually know 100% for sure how a historical figure would view current events. I would have thought that was so obvious it could go without saying."

Unfortunately, Mr. Ford - and yourself - have taken the position that based on MLK's previous statements, his current position on things could be obviously discerned.

"nobody can literally know what a deceased person would have thought if they had been alive. So people should be able to just skip over that mundane point and move on to the interesting part of giving their opinions on what historical figures would think of some current issue."

I don't see having been deceased for four decades as a "mundane point one should skip over". Nor did Mr. Ford proffer his diatribe as 'opinion', but as a statement of fact.

Nice attempt at back-peddling - but my initial position still stands: Given that, as you are now saying, "no one can literally know what a deceased person would have thought" about today's world, it is the height of arrogance, not to mention abject stupidity, to insist that Mr. Ford (or anyone else) is in a position to proffer thoughts, statements and ideas that would have been held by MLK as though it were a fact.

That is exactly what Ford did, and is exactly what you defended - until your position was pointed out, by myself and others, as completely indefensible and downright absurd.

You keep bringing up what "adults" would think about this nonsense - and that repetition leads me to believe that you are defensive about being perceived as "an adult". And with good reason.

Adults don't put words into the mouths of dead men in order to validate their own currently-held positions. Adults don't stick their hands into the backs of long-deceased leaders and manipulate them like Muppets. Adults don't attribute thoughts, words, and actions to corpses and pretend they are 'channeling' what the dead would have, could have, should have said or done.

You might want to consider growing up and actually being an adult, instead of defending your incredibly immature and childish positions. And that's what they are.