The fringe, politically speaking, is more of a direction than a place--move towards any fringe and that fringe moves further back.
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The space between all fringes, where acceptable ideas exist, is called the Overton Window (if I understand the term correctly)
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Liberalism--emphasizing free speech, etc--tolerates all sorts of fringes but can never drift too far towards any one of them
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Move closer to any fringe, and certain ideas leave the realm of acceptability and must be censored.
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Move too far towards any fringe, and the very possibility of other ideologies starts to vanish, except among enemies of the state.
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So what makes liberalism odd as an ideology is that it's the ideology of maximizing ideologies. It is essentially directionless.
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When "liberalism" starts censoring or pushing towards a particular fringe, you're dealing with something else that stole the label.
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Anyway, I don't think any of this is particularly new...pretty sure I just rehashed entry-level Moldbug stuff. Was on my mind though.
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i mean basically but moldbug would also have taken 2 or 3 5000 word articles to state this
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