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Borneo Jimmy posted:Are there people who still think Foreign Policy is a serious magazine? The bit about Reinhold Niebuhr is disingenuous, the idea that because Obama and King read Niebuhr they would agree is insane. Sure, King often cited Niebuhr, but mostly his later work on the nature of sin and on the potential to use nonviolence to further the cause of black rights. The key difference between Niebuhr and King, as Niebuhr noted, was that King was a pacifist. This also neglects the ties King had to Bayard Rustin and the Fellowship of Reconciliation, which were explicitly pacifist. From what we know of King's personal and theological positions he wouldn't have intervened. If we are going to assume King's views might have changed if he had lived why not just admit we're going to make poo poo up. The writer is a young, white editorial assistant from Sweden who just graduated Harvard. I suspect he must be trolling for article clicks.
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