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Centrism
| More like, why is it impossible now?
| It's neither good nor bad, it simply is.
| Good things: idk
Bad things: It's capable of maintaining civilization
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| Centrism, aka "We have to be polite to the Nazis too, or else you're automatically wrong."
| >>164006 letting people speak there shit opinions isn't being polite. It's just an important principal.
Rather have my wankers out in daylight.
| The problem though is that giving an equal platform to dumb ass backwards shit results in making them seem like equivalent viewpoints, like treating climate change deniers or "dinosaurs aren't real" or "fake moon landing" people getting equal treatment
| What scale
| The bane of most moderates is that they're milquetoasts. They aren't radical enough about moderation. Rather than letting extremists run amok it'd work better if there were an explicitly apolitical figure (something like most European monarchs) whose job was, with some oversight, to say "What, Neo-nazis? Communists? Islamists? Nope, they're dangerous to our system. They can recant or leave."
| >>335494
Centrism is opposed to all forms of extremism from both ends of the political spectrum. Nazis included.
| centrism is a meme
| >>335884
But what if Nazis successfully advertise themselves as "centrists"? (This is what happens over and over again)
| >>335884 I believe>>164006 is criticizing the way discussions as moderated by centrists often lead to Nazis framing their platform as reasonable and rational, while the understandly upset opponents end up being seen as emotional and irrational.
Also dog whistling is very much a thing. (That is, hinting to discrete facists that you're on their side in a way centrists won't recognize)
| Being a Centerist is like being the designated driver for two people who just absolutely hate each other. It's more about damage control than anything else, but just ends up being an enabler.
| >>336663
Let one of those bickering idiots drive, everyone in the car suffers a fatal accident no matter what they wanted.
| >>335600
Centrists more often dismiss both sides as bad, rather than just dismiss the cranks. The fallacy is still the same.
| >>335600 If the ideas really are as described, dumb ass backwards shit, then even on an equal platform they will be blatantly different.
| >>336722
It lends false credibility to backwards shit by failing to show it for what it is, portraying it as equal to a credible expert opinion.
>When CNN is presenting D0ctor Joe Bloggs as a climate change "expert" against someone with a Princeton degree who has dedicated their life to the topic, the public now needs an expert to examine credentials before they can examine evidence given by experts.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Balance_fallacy#False_equivalence
| >>337911
And before you start, I already know you faggots think all experts are stupider than you.
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| Why is it good and why is it bad?