context: Malcolm X’s pilgrimage to the birthplace of Islam changed his life, as the meme says. The right panel shows the irony of being detained at an airport instead.

^context information is AI generated and may contain mistakes. No AI retouching of images was performed on my end

      • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        4 days ago

        Because it’s lazy as fuck. It adds literally nothing to the meme, it’s just a text description and doesn’t explain why he was detained

            • Mustachius_Grumpius@thelemmy.clubOP
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              I like posting. I dont want to add context manually. dont complain its no longer added. additionally - look at the about section - rules:

              AI generated context description expressly allowed

              • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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                dont complain its no longer added.

                Why would anyone complain about a slop summary not being added when they can just ask the slop machine themselves?

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                BuT tHe RuLeS aLlOw It

                Cry me a river clanker. Just a good excuse to block this shitty instance then. Thanks for pointing out that the loser mods here are ai jerkers.

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            This was always the right answer, the lazy and entitled idiots who can’t google certainly aren’t getting interested enough to read the actual history.

            They get their “education” from memes. Fuck em.

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            You’re allowed to write the context yourself. Using AI to write your context makes me think you don’t actually understand the history being referenced. Especially if the context is just a text description. Do you know why he was detained?

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    So I read Malcom X’s wiki entry and learned lots of new stuff about him (didn’t know he was a devoted Muslim and supporter of empowerment through segregation/ remigration of black people to africa) Please correct me if I am wrong about anything I am saying here.

    So to add a little more context to the meme: X travelled to Jeddha in 1964 to begin his pilgrimage to Mecca.

    However, airport authorities questioned his muslim faith as he was a US citizen and could not speak arabi leading to him being detained. So X reached out to an author whos book had been given to him with his visa, who vouched for X and was able to get him out of detention.

    Also X was declared a guest of honor by Prince Faisal soon after, who I believed is the chap in the meme next to Malcom.

    Malcom, who believed that black and white people are best segregated, so that black people would be free from white oppression was surprised to see that the muslim community was quite diverse, from white, brown to black people all united by the faith. He therefore came to believe that the muslim faith could be a tool to create a peacful coexistence of people of all ethnicities.

    Again, feel free to correct me if I am wrong about anything. Can recommend reading his wiki. Malcom X turned out to be so different from what I remebered from school.