Highlights: Dr. Bernice King is no stranger to watching people on social media use her father’s legacy to score a point. But this time, she’d clearly had enough of it.

On Wednesday, the daughter of the late-civil rights icon, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called out comedian Amy Schumer for implying that he would have supported Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip.

  • Arcane_Trixster@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    She made a post on Twitter, which millions of people do every day. She wasn’t standing on a soap box in the Town Square. This headline is a major exaggeration of what she said, even.

    Everyone is entitled to an opinion. All this discussion about her’s is just a chance to start up the Amy Schumer hate train again.

    • OniiFam@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      That and exposing all the anti-semites on the left too. Extreme right and extreme left really aren’t all that different in the end