• Tinidril@midwest.social
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    2 days ago

    MLK never advocated for open borders. It’s a bastardization of his statement to dismiss all but the most radical positions on any issue.

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      2 days ago

      I was referring to MLK’s thoughts on white moderates’ tendency to hijack/coopt civil rights activism and neuter it, not to anything he might have said about open borders (which he opposed afaik).

      First, I must confess that over the last 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 the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Council-er 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 can’t agree with your methods of direct action;” who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a “more convenient season.”

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        I was referring to MLK’s thoughts on white moderates’ tendency…

        That’s what I figured but I assumed, given the thread, that you were applying it to open borders. I apparently assumed wrong.