• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      No centrist cares. They have an excuse for breaking solidarity with a vulnerable minority.

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        9 hours ago

        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 […]

        That was Martin Luther King Jr. talking about civil rights. It rings just as true today for trans people.