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You’re fine with the oppression of people that aren’t you. Ends justify the means mentality.
By that logic, every abolitionist who didn't pick up a gun in 1820 and start killing slave owners was fine with slavery.
By that logic, every doctor who can't cure every patient is a murderer.
There are things that are possible and things that aren't.
Frederick Douglas worked for Lincoln in 1860, even though there was an abolitionist candidate. Douglas looked at the situation dispassionately and decided that it was better to support the moderate Lincoln, who did not promise to end slavery.
Also, the gay man I mentioned never called King out, because that guy knew you have to pick your battles.
Yeah man they knew to pick their battles in a time where black people were a legally distinct second class. They didn't bring gay issues into it because that wasnt the fight. Black gay men in the 60s were more worried about the fact it was illegal for them to sit at a counter as black people than their individual persecution for being gay. You have no excuse to not care about the persecution of individuals for being gay. Gtfo. This is the fight now, so shut the fuck up.
All your examples are people putting their personal convictions aside for the ultimate good, which you are not doing. People in 1820 who didn't pick up guns WERE okay with slavery.
You're doing the exact opposite of that guy, because you're saying stop fighting for the rights of your own people because my personal feelings about it are more important, you absolute nonce. Way to completely distort and misunderstand your own point.
That is an internet classic.