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The iconic words of Martin Luther King Jr are now being used to promote the exact causes that the civil rights activist would have opposed.
In the United States, conservatives quoted him to celebrate the supreme court’s ban on affirmative action based on race in university admissions.
Here, people like Peter Dutton are invoking MLK to rally opponents of the Voice to Parliament.
Today, writer, lawyer and contributor to The Saturday Paper Nyadol Nyuon, on why the right is stealing language and history and how it threatens to divide us.
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Guest: Director of the Sir Zelman Cowen Centre at Victoria University, Nyadol Nyuon
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