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Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del... by wpietri on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @01:35AM (#13528292)
Neither.

NYC residents being hazily "on their side" in a broad political struggle is distinct from actively doing something to oppose the EO. Again, read the Letter.

And no, it wouldn't. Although that is something that he did quite a bit of, given that he got his start as a Baptist preacher, so I'm not sure your analogy works.

Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del... by hueving on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @01:48AM (#13528356)
He didn't intentionally disrupt people already supporting him. As in, he didn't block a group of people trying to get to a church that was about to preach about black rights.
Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del... by tiles on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @02:32AM (#13528519)
Actually, MLK has much to say about "inconvenient" protests. https://www.michaelhanscom.com/eclecticism/2014/12/31/mlk-on...

He disagrees with the white moderate proclaiming "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action." You are committing that error.

Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del... by hueving on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @06:07AM (#13529567)
>You are committing that error.

No I am not. I am fine with disruptive protests, but they should be disrupting the people who need their minds changed. What is so difficult to understand about the fact that we are talking about protesting in the wrong place entirely?

The analogy is MLK protesting in an all-black church to prevent the constituents from hearing a sermon from a civil rights activist.

This has nothing to do with "inconvenient" protests so much as idiotic protests disrupting the very choir to which they are preaching.

Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del... by wpietri on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @11:50AM (#13532337)
> they should be disrupting the people who need their minds changed

No. You continue to fail to understand MLK's theory of protest. If you have read his Letter From a Birmingham Jail, you give no sign of it.

If the people being disrupted are already active in a movement to change things, they will not mind the protest. But if they are merely people who say "I agree with you in the goal you seek" without active support, then they are the very moderates that MLK was addressing here: "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 [...]".