This is ALSO true of Malala Yousafzai, who was celebrated as a champion for the education of girls and women worldwide. She became an icon because she almost sacrificed herself for doing something that should be common for any girl to do.

However, you will NEVER hear about the fact that Ms Yousafzai has used her international platform to speak out against global poverty, the chilling horror of US drone strikes, and against capitalism. In fact, she herself is aware of how the media in the west portrays her, saying that she is “no western puppet”.

What the media will not tell you is that Malala is a full-blown socialist, having said “I am convinced Socialism is the only answer and I urge all comrades to take this struggle to a victorious conclusion. Only this will free us from the chains of bigotry and exploitation”.

@yassie_j Reminds me of Martin Luther King. The story we hear today is so fucking whitewashed and stripped of anything that might cause offense to the capitalist hellhole we built for ourselves it's a disgrace to his legacy.

He was a socialist fighting for a guaranteed livable state income for everyone to eradicate poverty. He was assassinated when planning a march on Washington for that cause.

The whitewashed version of his story ends at the Civil Rights Act. It's laughably transparant, yet I doubt many Americans know. The whitewashing has been institutional and extremely thorough.