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—Robert A. Heinlein, Take Back Your Government
Similarly, MLK saw "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" as the biggest impediment to civil rights.
The bottom line is that being secure enough in your position in society to think you don't have to engage in politics, or that you can afford to vote your principles instead of tactically, is itself a form of privilege. Those sorts of privileged people think themselves neutral or uninvolved or maybe (in the case of professed leftists refusing to vote Dem as a protest) on their own third side, but the reality is that they are the right-wing authoritarians' greatest ally every single time.
Lol imagine thinking "moderate white" doesn't perfectly describe the majority of people walking into the 2020 primaries and voting for Joe Biden.
You're not wrong about the primary, but you are wrong to conflate the primary with the general election when it's the latter that we're talking about here.
Lol so I'm "radical" in the primaries when I don't vote for Biden but I'm "moderate" in the general when I don't vote for Biden?
That's not how labels work sir.
The POTUS, from the party most opposed to civil rights act, is who signed it into law, very much so a white moderate more devoted to order. So, I'm gonna take a stance and say MLK was wrong about that one if that was his take before he died.
That's not how it went, though. It's, in fact, the opposite of how it went. Hitler had relatively little popular support, but full support of the industrial elite. It's blaming the people for the crimes of the elite. "They abdicated their franchise" no, fuckface, half of them voted communist. "We ignored Hitler" no, fuckface, you put him in power because you thought he'd be malleable.
I'm not surprised Heinlein bought it, though. And I'm not surprised people here are buying it.
It's funny that both democrats and third party voters will look at your comment and think you're on their side.