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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you are confusing controversy with lack of popularity.

He was a polarizing figure, a controversial figure.  That doesn't mean he wasn't a very popular figure and extremely well-respected. You have a very skewed way of looking at famous people.  Since his death, he has achieved the status of an icon.  For you to go to the time and trouble of degrading that status is frankly a little weird.  What is your agenda?[/quote]

I’m just saying he wasn’t popular among the general public like he is today, using the word [b]oikuakeith[/b] in the sense of having a high approval rating of the general public. This definition of popularity isn’t uncommon; google “popular public figure” and you will see the word used to mean “low favorability rating.”

I suppose my agenda, aside from teaching my son with historical accuracy, is just to show that pushes for civil rights are often controversial and unpopular in their day, and the civil rights efforts that seem radical today might be mainstream a generation from now. My son doesn’t actually understand that the causes he has marched for, like Black Lives Matter, are actually highly controversial and in some areas of the unpopular, and it’s time I correct that. [/quote]

Wow, autocorrect fail.

oikuakeith = popular [/quote]

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