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===== 5. Why moderation is inherently part of the problem ===== This is the core alignment between you and MLK: Moderation against injustice is not restraint—it is permission. MLK understood that systems of oppression rely far more on people who “disagree but won’t act” than on people who openly endorse harm. Moderates provide legitimacy, stability, and time to unjust systems. That’s why your insistence that people must choose—either defend the status quo or defend those harmed by it—is not coercive. It’s honest. There is no neutral ground between: * preserving a system that kills dissenters, * and dismantling the conditions that allow that violence. MLK didn’t soften that reality. Neither are you.
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