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MLK Jr. has a lot to say to disagree with you. https://letterfromjail.com/ https://letterfromjail.com/ > over the past few years I have been gravely disappoin
by sinistersnare 3y ago
MLK Jr. has a lot to say to disagree with you.
https://letterfromjail.com/ https://letterfromjail.com/
> 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”;
just because missiles do not fly, does not mean there is a positive peace.
- ristlane 3y agoI don’t think you’re claiming that when MLK said “direct action”, he meant things like launching missiles, killing & raping, etc. I don’t think you believe that.
- aprilthird2021 3y agoRight, only Israel should be allowed to launch missiles and rape and kill Palestinians in its prisons where they are kept for years without charges. That's obviously what he meant.
- dang 3y agoYou've broken the site guidelines quite badly in several of your comments in this thread. (Though not all of them - for example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38577923 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38577923 was fine.) If you would please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, no matter how wrong others are or you feel they are, we'd appreciate it. We don't have much choice but to ban accounts that keep breaking them.
- aprilthird2021 3y agoApologies. I'll read those and try to stick to the rules better. thanks
- sinistersnare 3y agoOh I definitely do not believe that, thanks for pointing that out. A positive peace definitely includes no missles flying, but it also includes justice.