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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 8325463" data-attributes="member: 87792">With all due respect "the moral high ground" is less important than dealing with actual bullying by people like Ernie GygaxAnd when it comes to people being bullied for what they are and people without a dog in the fight telling them that they have to behave like model citizens and not hit back if they want the moral high ground I've fortunately never been remotely in the position the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King was. So I'm going to quote his <a href="https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html" target="_blank">Letter from a Birmingham Jail</a>:I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that 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"; 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." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.The insistence that people being attacked and oppressed for who they are must fit their tactics to what uninvolved bystanders think is "the moral high ground" to me sounds almost identical to "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action".</blockquote>

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