It sure does
ID: 3 panel comic:
First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
Martin Luther King Jr, Letter from the Birmingham Jail
I’m totally fine, on paper, with actual centrists
I'd like to know what I'm in the center of. Because if it's a Nuremberg Rally, maybe that's not where I want to be.
There is a middle ground between the unregulated facists capitalism of today and the anarchy or authoritarian socialism of tankies.
That middle ground means that capitalism is allowed but is regulated. Minimum wage is a living wage, slave or child labor products are not allowed on the market. We do have social services including healthcare and UBI. However, there is no middle ground on perceiving much less treating anyone as lesser. Nazis and supremacist groups and systems are stamped out like the filth they are.
Hi that's me. Left leaning moderate. I disagree with a bunch of the crap on the left but I really don't like a lot of what the right pulls either.
I will say that people on the left tend to violently push me away when we disagree on something where as the right tends to go "yeah I disagree with you, but you can hang out here if you want". So it's really easy to see why so many people have been pulled to the right over the last 10+ years. I've witnessed it first hand when I started doing it myself. I was staring down the far right pipeline and I turned around to go back home to the left but they didn't want me anymore because I had dared to even look the other direction for awhile.
I've seen it happen to friends and family as well. I still talk to them, but man... I wish the left would stop shoving people out when they could be allies.
people on the left tend to violently push me away when we disagree on something where as the right tends to go “yeah I disagree with you, but you can hang out here if you want”.
:-/
Conservative: I have been censored for my conservative views
Me: Holy shit! You were censored for wanting lower taxes?
Con: LOL no...no not those views
Me: So....deregulation?
Con: Haha no not those views either
Me: Which views, exactly?
Con: Oh, you know the ones
If it's the "online" left then I think it's the "online" part that's mostly the problem. People tend to be serious assholes when the interaction is distant and you're just an "other." Left, right, or center, too many people are comfortable with being insufferable cunts with no respect online. :(
The capitalist status quo is protected by a political wing we call "liberalism" and a paramilitary wing we call "fascism."
Carrot and stick, good cop/bad cop - pick your metaphor.
For far too long, leftists have laboured under the delusion that liberals are merely "misguided" people that can be "pushed" left as soon as we could get them to read this or that book by our favourite Beardy McDeadguy. This kind of understanding of these people we call "centrists," "moderates," and, by far the most accurate term, "liberals," completely ignores the fact that it is liberalism - not fascism - that is the true ideology of privilege. Privilege that means that liberals are even more invested in the maintenance of the status quo that the rank and file of fascism are.
The left has always proven itself capable of defeating fascists - but it seems that it has no real answer to the insidious, co-opting tentacles of the liberal and the mountain of lies liberalism is built upon.
You're right. I'm a liberal and we don't like you leftists. Get out of our party and start your own. You're the real fascism enablers.
You’re the real fascism enablers.
Keep telling yourself that, liberal... especially when you watch the liberals you vote for "reaching across the aisle" to your fascist cousins.
Your party didn't support gay marriage rights until what 2012 (at the behest of actual leftists and when it finally became politically expedient) and its major health care success was a Heritage Foundation plan full of means testing. It also actively supports an ongoing genocide.
Liberalism can never inherently provide a useful answer to the problems of capitalism, inequality, and climate change because it must protect private property rights and capital. Your party answers to corporate interests and that is a known fact.
Trump literally ran on anti-NAFTA and uses immigration as a scapegoat for peoples' economic woes.
"How about just a little genocide?"
I don’t know what you think “the center” is, it doesn’t mean being undecided or voting against human rights. The Left is not a religion, and anything which demands “with us or against us” membership is not any better than fascism.
If you feel personally attacked by this, it's you.
I don’t feel personally attacked by it, I was just commenting
Letting perfect be the enemy of the good enables fascism.
Ah, yes, the centrist's mantra.. 🙄
How dare you not be an extremist!
Antifascism is not an extreme position
The correct answer/opinion is not always the middle of two "extreme" options. Thinking so is fallacious.
Abolition was "extreme" during the time of slavery.
Center means you think both red & blue are fucking lunatics.
Thinking both sides are lunatics and you have the only rational take can also be a symptom of being an edgelord.
No, it’s because I’m capable of taking a step back and noticing that neither side wants to be accountable for their bullshit and that’s how come we’re now in an authoritarian state.
As a centrist, you have my approval
If you're not with us then you're against us. I think the bad guys actually coined that phrase.
If a Nazi sits down at a table of 3 and nobody says anything. There are now 4 Nazis at that table.
I'm using this. Thanks!
But if nobody says anything, how do you know the fourth person is a Nazi?
I guess it’s assumed that you know that person is already a nazi, for example the person is Elon Musk. He won’t say anything, but you still know that he’s a nazi
3+1=4
If a centrist sits down at a table of three, and the three string him up and punish him for not falling into line... There were never less than three Nazi's at the table.
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