Miriam BooshOct 5, 2023
The road to fascism is lined with moderates and people on the internet telling you to stop overreacting.
Show thread🎓 Doc Freemo  🇳🇱Oct 6, 2023

@Miriamm

Moderates, as in the non-alt-left/alt-right... the "Reasonable" part of both those spectrum? Or did you maybe mean centrists? I mean id disagree either way but very weird to say being reasonable/moderate (not ideologically extreme) is going to destroy the world...

Show threadJargoggles
@freemo @Miriamm
How about in the sense that MLK used it when he said that the "great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate."
Oct 6, 2023 at 4:34amWeb
Show thread🎓 Doc Freemo  🇳🇱Oct 6, 2023

@jargoggles

Ahh so we arent talking moderate in the political sense at all, MLK when he spoke of "white moderates" in this quote clearly was not talking in terms of political spectrum.

In fact when MLK did speak of parties he made quite clear he himself was a centrist:

“I don’t think the Republican Party is a party full of the almighty God, nor is the Democratic Party. They both have weaknesses. And I’m not inextricably bound to either party.” -- MLK Jr.

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