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CMV: MLK was entirely against rioting and to say otherwise is to misquote and misrepresent him.

Honestly, I’m not entirely sure how I feel in regards to rioting as a form of protest, but regardless of that, I feel that when leftists say something along the lines of “well actually, MLK did riot and supported rioting actually!” I just can’t help but chuckle to myself and shake my head in disprovable.

It’s unfortunate because I’ve been delving into leftist politics and watching debates, and every time a leftist in a debate brings this up, I go to research it. Every time I do, I always wind up finding videos of MLK directly saying that he believes rioting makes people more immoral and that it’s wrong and other such things.

I understand he stated that “rioting is the voice of the unheard” but I still feel as if that wasn’t an approval of rioting, but more so just MLK playing devil’s advocate and explaining to the interviewer why people feel as though they should riot.

I would like my mind to be changed on this and I’m more than willing to have my view swayed, I just can’t seem to find an article or video that can truly convince me to see it that way, and so I figured I’d come here as a last resort since I know that Reddit is overwhelming left leaning from my observations. My hope is that a big brained leftist chad will prove to me exactly why MLK supported riots and actually started some of his own that he never came to regret or something like that.
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I mean, yeah, MLK did not like riots, did not want riots, and thought riots were generally bad.  

However, generally when people bring up MLKs quote about riots being the language of the unheard, they're usually not saying "nah he was totally fine with riots".  Theyre typically pointing out that MLK understood (correctly) that riots are an unfortunate but predictable outcome of failing to address the needs of the people, and of failing to produce positive change in an oppressive system.  I've never really encountered anyone who said "actually MLK was super cool with riots and thought they were great".

MLK also understood that, despite anyone's best efforts, bad actors are going to find their way into any social movement, and also that opponents of any social movement will seek to characterize that movement will as violent, riotous, and criminal.  MLK himself was accused many times in the press of starting and encouraging riots, despite his efforts to the contrary.

MLK was a pretty radical socialist himself, and he believed and repeatedly said that true change would only come with huge systemic change and redistribution of wealth.  Without that change, riots would continue.  Towards the later parts of his career, he also began to write that he was seeing the limits of what non-violent protest could achieve, and became increasingly radical.

So you're basically right MLK isnt saying "riots are cool", he's saying "this is going to keep happening if things don't change for the better".  But he's also saying "I know why these happen, and the solution is radical social and economic change.  Eventually that may require something more than non-violent protest."