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hlthe2b

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10. I so love all the "supportive Dem males" patting all the women on the head and telling us how you've always supported
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 04:27 PM
Jan 17

us in getting equality and now, wow no fight required. The RW assessment is absolutely "correct"--just as was the discussion after VA passed the ERA.

Why am I reminded of MLK as he wrote in Birmingham jail with re: to this? Such similarities :

“…that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Councilor 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.’ ”

The great enemy of justice are those moderates who feign outrage at societal injustice, but whose outrage conveniently disappears when real change threatens their status. These moderates are more comfortable leaving unchallenged the assumed moral authority of certain institutions, traditions and practices that are the purveyors of injustice rather than confronting their own role in maintaining these institutions. The hard truth is that the comfort of the status quo is always preferable to pursuing the demands of justice.

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