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“We can save the world from fascists, we just need to throw these particular people under the bus”
I love how this paints the affirmation as some random unprovoked act and not the counter reaction to the harassment, because if they would paint it as what is it, a counter reaction to the harassment, then it would become obvious that the “live and let live” approach is under attack by bigots and the affirmation is an attempt to counter the attack and reinstate “live and let live”.
Wtf is this
Given that most of the people I know who go to (or went to) what you’d call moderate churches also voted for Trump, I’d say your view is at best flawed.
Liberals sure do love driving people over
I’m neither liberal nor religious, but fuck bigoted “moderate” church in particular.
I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
— MLK Jr., 1963, Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Sure bud let’s risk women being turned into 50s tradwives by a fascist regime because boohoo moderate church said mean things about gay marriage
King was writing directly to leaders of “moderate” Alabama churches & synagogues in 1963.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_from_Birmingham_Jail
- https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Call_for_Unity
- https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/letter-to-martin-luther-king/
My Dear Fellow Clergymen:
While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would have little time for anything other than such correspondence in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work. But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I want to try to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms.
If king was alive today he’d tell people to vote for Kamala.
I don’t think moderates are qualified to speak for a radical who was assassinated by the FBI for organizing the Poor People’s March on Washington.
Stepan who? Stepan Bandera? Fuck off with this fascist bullshit mate
Lesser of two evils is fascism!?
This is sarcasm/satire, right?
Not for this person, I don’t believe
about how the left needs to appease everyone
well “everyone” except queer people, racialized people, disabled people, women… so, yknow, everyone except most people
but don’t worry, the marginalized will have no choice but to ally with their oppressors, which will go wonderfully well im sure 🥰
wait, you think the trolley problem is from the Good Place?
don’t start with this, Ted Danson has a whole interview about how he fed the idea to Michael Schur after overhearing a drunk Phillipa Foot ranting about it at a sex party, shove your whole foot in your mouth
What
Right - that’s the new Christian Single Commandment - “Thou only need bother to be somewhat less evil than those other people over there.”
What? I’m so confused lmao
Another shitbot to be banned.
This individual posted this at open Christian, and defended it as trying to protect women. I’ll say it again: genocide apologia, disffirmation of lgbtqia, in a nearly naked attempt to uphold the patriarchy. Nope.
