The road to fascism is lined with moderates and people on the internet telling you to stop overreacting.

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@Miriamm

Moderates, as in the non-alt-left/alt-right... the "Reasonable" part of both those spectrum? Or did you maybe mean centrists? I mean id disagree either way but very weird to say being reasonable/moderate (not ideologically extreme) is going to destroy the world...

@freemo @Miriamm
How about in the sense that MLK used it when he said that the "great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate."

@jargoggles

Ahh so we arent talking moderate in the political sense at all, MLK when he spoke of "white moderates" in this quote clearly was not talking in terms of political spectrum.

In fact when MLK did speak of parties he made quite clear he himself was a centrist:

“I don’t think the Republican Party is a party full of the almighty God, nor is the Democratic Party. They both have weaknesses. And I’m not inextricably bound to either party.” -- MLK Jr.

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@freemo @Miriamm

The current status quo, this business as usual that we take for granted as normal and ordinary and comfortable, is already destroying the world.

Seen the weather lately?

People have very, very different ideas of what is "reasonable".

@violetmadder

What are you on about. The damage to global warming is largely perpetuated by non-moderates. For example the alt-right, one of the least moderate political categories is also the most aggressive against green policies.

Likewise, thankfully there isnt much communism left, but when it was more common communism was likewise one of the worst offenders of mother nature.

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