No, it's not. People can find themselves in the centre but this is almost never a result of a philosophical commitment to 'centrism.'https://twitter.com/melonfraufrau/status/898316801708359680 …
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And its a mistake to think of people who find themselves there just on that spectrum are wishy-washy & uncommitted.
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I have argued in terms of a centre in the past but I've always really been talking abt a set of principles rooted in liberalism & humanism.
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Which are found on the left & right but not in the extreme reaches of either.
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Being a centrist just means that you don't find absolutely everyone around you entirely unreasonable.
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But why don't you? Not because of a philosophical commitment to finding the middle point of things. Real principles in play.
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Correct. Most of what I have to say is already in Mill, Dewey, and Rorty.
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Yeah. Centre is descriptive of a position relative to societal norms. It doesn't say what they are & what they mean.
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Neither of us would have centrist views if we lived in Pakistan but ppl who did have centrist ones there would understand people around them
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