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.
I understand where Martin is coming from, but it seems to me that moderates can be more frustrating than fascists only while moderates greatly outnumber and control the fascists. If you decide to shake things up by intentionally putting fascists in control in hopes of an equal and opposite reaction (i.e. accelerationism), we don’t have to look too far back into history to see what a mistake this is.
Moderates are the ones who create the conditions of material deprivation that give the fascists power.
Typically a generation lost waiting for the fascist fucks to die.
That won’t work.
Source: like the entire history of humanity.
Moderates are complicit with fascism, it benefits them and they will protect it
The two answers you see for the question of who should rule are moderates or fascists? Why don’t we “shake things up” by intentionally putting the fascists in the bin?
Not me. Those are the two groups MLK is referencing in that quote.