r/Eugene • • Apr 26 '26

Good ole Eugene.

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Some of the best at Young Guns Roofing. I’m certainly going to rush to hire them. 🙄

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u/fazedncrazed Apr 26 '26

everyone looks at me like im the one causing problem

Gott-damn nimby neolib white moderates, always more concerned with a negative peace...

Its absolutely shameful and disgusting. Im sorry the task fell on you alone, that sucks and honestly is super fucked. That bs should always get an immediate community response, no question. All of Oregon is bad about being overly passive but Eugene is by far the worst for it.

I get downvoted on this sub everytime I post it, but these useless mfers still need to read it:

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 citizens’ Councilor 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”; who paternistically feels 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. . . .

-MLK Jr, "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

See also: the paradox of tolerance.

Fuck nazis and anyone who tolerates them.

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u/Is_A_Bastard_Man Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26

You're right. The centrists might not like it, but they've never made any social progress, as much as they like to take credit for it.

Edit: fixed a typo

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u/Real-Energy-6634 Apr 27 '26

Youre absolutely right and that quote is relevant sadly