I’ve heard it many times from liberals who either mean the revolution would be more violent than our current system (it wouldn’t be), or suggesting that communists claim that we will achieve utopia if we’re just allowed to commit much brutality in the mean time (obviously false). This phrase annoys me so much, not just as a utilitarian, but also as someone who understands the meaning of words, as they are either suggesting that (in the moralistic sense) literally nothing is worth doing, ever, or that morality shouldn’t matter because everything is immoral anyway.
This stuff is hammered into liberals at every level of society, the recent Black Panther Marvel film was pretty much just propaganda that completely revolved around the concept of “We cannot kill even a single person even if killing saves the lives of millions of people.”.
MLK said it best, that the white moderate is more devoted to “order” than to justice; 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 can’t agree with your methods of direct action;”