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Malcolm X made people realize that maybe it wasn’t going to be all passive. Suddenly the Second Amendment wasn’t only all about resisting the King of England. Full born Americans being called to resist a clearly repressive government with arms if necessary, or defend themselves when the government looks the other way. If you don’t think that was a very meaningful part of the civil rights movement then I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree.
We always had relativity. Columbus didn’t invent North America.
I love how you’re the only person taking this thread seriously.
I’m not taking the OP seriously, but I’ve made serious posts and received serious replies.
I love how you think your condescending attitude means something.
No soap. Radio.
Have you really? Well, bully for you then!
Would that be more or less condescending than “Columbus didn’t invent America?”
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Anyway, I think it’s a bit of an exaggeration to attribute “racial equality” to Malcolm X all by his lonesome.
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Especially since he was a separatist who at least until the last year of his life believed that white people were literally the Devil and the result of a botched experiment, which does not say a lot for his critical thinking skills.
While officially he was moved by the presence of fair skinned white people and others on the Haj, there is some skepticism here as well. He had met with white Muslims before at Elijah Muhammad’s house among other places and had even been interviewed by white British Muslims for Muslim newspapers.
Sadly his life could be remembered as a triumph of reason over superstition, but it is not. And his direct legacy is sad indeed: the organization he founded after he split from NoI barely survived him while the NoI continued to grow. His daughters grew up in a white neighborhood so divorced from his life that his daughter Ilyassah wrote about learning most of what she knew about his life in a college class. His widow was killed by their grandson who later died in a Mexican jail (his own children, MX’s great-grandchildren, are on welfare).
Ultimately his legacy is that he co-wrote a great book.
I didn’t defend the OP at all. He was rather repugnant. You really have no basis to say that. I merely tried to make this a useful thread by making it a Social champ vs a Science champ.
I really wish I could think of something quick to say here, but you’re not worth the effort.
No one invented calculus either. From here it’s kinda hard swerving back to the topic. I am well aware, though, that lately some people on the net are coming up with “10 greatest geniuses” lists and they somehow include the likes of Michael Jackson and some other Afro-American entertainer. Guys like Newton and Kepler didn’t make it.
Uh, no. Calculus was invented. It’s not a natural fact. It’s a system for describing things.
Calculus is analysis so some of the procedures may have been inventions, but it’s a bit like saying someone invented addition.
The true mark of genius is creating an idea that seems obvious after the fact. Newton’s laws of motion are simple and nobody disagrees with them. That doesn’t mean that anyone could have developed them. Also you claim that Malcolm X had more verbal eloquence, in his native language, than Einstein had in a secondary language. However the work that Einstein did was not in English or German, rather his work was done in the only universal human language, Mathematics.
Some of the procedures, eh? You are aware that number themselves are an invention, right? There’s more than one system?
Einstein was one of the 20th century’s great humanists. To suggest he was merely a number-cruncher is of such idiocy one shudders to think it is said in sincerity.
Well, yes. Mathematics as a language would be an invention. But mathematical operations (all) are not.
by that bit of logic William F Buckley was smarter than Malcolm X. Which of course he was but not because of your very original and wholly unique brand of reasoning.
If Malcolm X was capable of making a cheese sandwich then you would get some agreement on that supposition. Comparing him to Albert Einstein requires a new reference scale that puts infinity somewhere in the middle.
Well I certainly hope you don’t think I am saying that because I said earlier that I think he had an enlightened drive.
So the operations are not, but the procedures are?