Climate Crisis, Biosphere & Societal Collapse

"I was just following orders." Those who's comforts are maintained by tyranny, and don't want to lose the comfort provided by tyranny to stand up against it, are directly enabling tyranny. Tyrants wouldn't last if not for the complacent "enlightened" centrist who thinks the balanced and sensible perspective is to "Keep Calm and Carry On." "At least they're not going after me!" says those who's loyalty has been bought by tyrants out of fear. The same kind of people who think the ones who fight tyrants are "terrorists."

the "moderates"

I don't know what you're referring to with this new term you've introduced.

What part of

Go read "Letter From a Birmingham Jail" if you need an explanation.

did you not understand?

Here's the link; go read it: https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

...and if you won't do that, fine, I'll spoon-feed you the relevant quote:

We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers. If today I lived in a Communist country where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly advocate disobeying that country's antireligious laws.

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.