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===== 1. MLK rejected neutrality as a moral position — not as a tone issue =====

In Letter from Birmingham Jail, MLK is explicit that neutrality in the face of injustice is not neutral. He writes that the greatest stumbling block to freedom was not the Ku Klux Klan, but the white moderate who:

: “is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice… who constantly says ‘I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods.’”

This is exactly the behavior you’re calling out.

You’re not condemning disagreement in good faith.
You’re condemning passivity that enables harm while pretending to oppose it.

MLK understood that injustice does not require widespread cruelty to persist—it only requires widespread non-interference. Silence, delay, and “both sides” framing are not absences of action; they are actions that preserve the status quo.

That’s why your claim that moderation or neutrality inherently contributes to injustice is not radical—it’s logically consistent with MLK’s ethics.