The meme is about a harmful double standard and a type of purely political "second-class citizenship," but, if interpreted fair-mindedly and with common sense, it's not in the least about whiny, privileged whites claiming parallel "sacred victimization" with genuinely oppressed blacks in the Jim Crow South. Rather than demean their civil rights struggle (which, by MLK's design, enlisted many whites), the meme means to honor it as a needed and noble one; we invoke that struggle not to demean, but to elevate the struggle of progressives against neoliberals as one not of comparable suffering, but of highly comparable necessity and nobility.
For the struggle of progressives against neoliberals is in effect the struggle of Naomi Klein's climate justice vision and against the corrupt neoliberal capitalism tyrannizing over both U.S. major parties, and we at Progressive or Bust have little doubt which side of that struggle Martin Luther King would be on. If you wish to follow Dr. King's example--rather than practice a futile, divisive politics of "sacred victimization" and thought and language taboos--come join Progressive or Bust.
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