The Annual Torrent of Hypocrisy

It's Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr Day, so that means that it's a day of right-wingers trying to claim the moral mantle of a man that they hate. The authorities persecuted King throughout his life and accused him of being a communist. King won, though, and has come to be regarded by the broader culture as a national saint, so right-wingers have tried to co-opt him for a decade or so. I mean, look at this hypocritical nonsense:

Today, we honor the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits." -MLK, Jr. #MLKDay pic.twitter.com/BiKpvRhCop

— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) January 18, 2021

MLK would have repudiated everything that Trump, the son of a klansman, stands for: his racism, his greed, his belligerence. There is no way that King would have supported the MAGA agenda, no matter what Deplorable trolls would have you think. It's an all-day cavalcade of grotesquerie from even the most unexpected quarters:

Today we honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s message of hope, justice and equality. pic.twitter.com/C7HOywZWbd

— ICE (@ICEgov) January 18, 2021

King, were he alive today, would be an unapologetic Social Justice Warrior (a peaceful one, of course), a crusader for economic justice, and a proponent of Black Lives Matter. Conservatives should just stop trying to claim his legacy... it's disgusting and it's not fooling anyone.  

POSTSCRIPT: THIS makes me want to holler.