Dude, you can’t post up something pretending that MLK was “worried more about fundraising than anything else” and basically a tool for the white man to derail the movement, and then get all surprised when the reaction is negative, even if you then walk it back to “oh I just thought it was an interesting perspective they didn’t teach me in school.” Continuously pivoting back to people calling you out on it not being “reasonable” or being mean to your innocent discourse isn’t really doing you any favors there either.

In my mind, figuring out why the civil rights bill passed when it did is a very important question with implications about the proper means of political activism in modern day America.

Indeed it is. With the political discourse climate as it is in modern-day American, I think part of the proper means that are necessary is to vigorously push back on shifty little narratives when they start trying to worm their way into the conversation. A lot of this stuff is (very effectively) spreading around and inserting dishonest little narratives to undermine support for leftist figures.

There are also some extremely instructive lessons to be drawn from the civil rights movement, of course, on that I’ll agree completely. But if your take on MLK was that he was a tool of the white man that held the movement back more than anything, I don’t think you’re qualified to be able to weigh in on that side of it.