The 'How I Met Your Mother' Facebook page rewrote MLK's 'I Have a Dream' and it is bad
Barney Stinson might be funny for his unapologetic womanizing on How I Met Your Mother.
But mixing his character with revered civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. seems destined to go wrong.
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The Facebook page for the TV show — which ended in 2014 — published a post on MLK Day, appropriating King's revered "I Have a Dream" speech, but in the character of Stinson.
It's tacky as hell, featuring lines like "I have a dream that one day all bros will rise up and live out the true meaning of their creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident - that all are boobs are created pretty good.'"
Or a dream that "black and white chicks will come together in my bed" and "all tee-shirts will be wet and boob jobs will be free." Yep.
The comments were less than forgiving, but there were also a few people who didn't see the problem.
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Sure, if Stinson was a real person, maybe he'd say all this. But rewriting King's speech in the words of a TV character famed for his misogyny and sociopathy is asking for trouble.
Neil Patrick Harris, who plays Stinson, tweeted a much more tactful quote from King earlier on Monday.
'I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.' - Martin Luther King, Jr.
— Neil Patrick Harris (@ActuallyNPH) January 16, 2017
Mashable has contacted CBS for comment.
