Is this a bit?

Centrist John Brown?

I remain baffled that anyone who isn’t a white supremacist or a black supremacist can look at this conflict and feel so strongly that one side’s cause is so just and the other side’s so wicked that it demands everyone take the same, extremely strong position. Anyone who would take an extreme stance like “gather a militia of men and go on a righteous but perhaps doomed struggle for freedom and equality” against one side is crazy!