Roger Scruton accurately describing how Twitter Tankies, and much of the Left, view people who do not accept all the standard left-wing shibboleths.pic.twitter.com/usPYHrndW1
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Agree about twitter tankies seeing those on the right and centre as evil. But are they not a small (but vocal) minority of leftists?
Do you not think the student Left, for example, tends to think political moderation is indicative of moral failing? Difficult because it depends on what one means by left, centrist, right, moderate, etc - for example, conservatives can disagree fundamentally with neo-liberals.
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I'd agree that many do, but I think some on the right do indeed see centrism as moral failing in different respects depending on the kind of right wing view. On the right-nationalist side some view centrism as cowardice for not being more overt, or as nation-/race- treachery 1/
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Yes, I'm not talking about right nationalism - I think they are the mirror image of the Left (not in terms of their views, but in terms of the way they see the outgroup).
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Whereas right-libertarian types often see centrism as part of the statist, big govt. elite who are as much (or more!) of their enemy than individual leftists. Finally, this attitude towards the centre can sometimes be legitimate, in the spirit of Elie Wiesel's famous words... /2
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I.e. that neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim
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