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▲ dyauspitr 2 hours ago

I’ve never really consider sexual impropriety problematic in someone I look up to unless it’s pedophilia or rape.

▲tropdrop 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Elsewhere in the comments here, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Martin Luther King Jr (David Garrow), according to this article [1]:

"The most damaging memos describe King witnessing a rape in a hotel room. Instead of stopping it, handwritten notes in the file say he encouraged the attacker to continue."

1 - https://theconversation.com/im-an-mlk-scholar-and-ill-never-...

▲maerF0x0 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

He was a Christian minister though, and many of us value him not just for his contributions to civil rights, but to the conversation of how God wants us to treat one another.

▲IG_Semmelweiss 31 minutes ago | parent [-]

Well said.

He was brave and an incredible orator. But not exactly a paragon of virtue, someone who can lead by example, which we really need at the highest rungs of power.