OK, I need to have a thread about centrism coz I am being accused of it again in terms of doing 'both sides' stuff. I've said before why I don't think centrism (in the sense of taking a middle position on everything rather than finding your views somewhere near the middle) works.
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It's not us who support freedom of speech sometimes, who think religious privilege is OK in some cases, who want some individual freedoms curtailed, who think evidence can be dispensed with for some claims or that it is OK to discriminate by race, gender sexuality in some cases.
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The kind of inconsistency above which applies values pragmatically and inconsistently is not the failing of the majority of us who value secular liberal democracy and the fruits of the Enlightenment. It is the failing of the ideologue who can be right or left.
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It’s almost as if...it’s a STRAWMAN!!! People who actually use strawmen to make a legitimate point (rather than just clowning) are all stupid and are very likely to be extremists in any case
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Extremists need to think like that in order to justify their extremism. Positioning themselves against extremists helps legitimize their own terrible views.
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