I am shocked, I say. Shocked! Well, not that shocked.
I am shocked, I say. Shocked! Well, not that shocked.
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Funny how there's a bunch of people in the comments essentially just unironically repeating the meme: "Well this must be wrong because I believe this and I'm actually a centrist!!!"
That's the point, buddy. You're the butt of the joke. The idea that the far-left and far-right are equally bad or warrant the same amount of scrutiny and criticism is a right-wing belief.
To make the point more obvious instead of using "left" and "right" look at specific political beliefs that the far-left and far-right have:
- Equality across social and demographic groups vs. State-enforced racism, sexism and other kinds of bigotry
- Abolishment of bourgeois property and money vs. Complete privatization, oligarchy and corruption
- Globalization, peaceful relations and a right to live where you want vs. Complete isolationism and xenophobia
- Right to self-governance and no government with a monopoly on violence vs. State sanctioned violence against those considered undesirable or traitors
Hopefully I don't need to explain which one is obviously worse. To equate what the far-left and the far-right advocate for one must misrepresent the left, so both-sides-ism inherently has a right-wing slant.
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Left : "Stop bombing civilians"
Centrists : "Let's meet in the middle and bomb only some of the civilians."
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the left general public: let's alienate the people that might agree with us, but be shocked when the right wins.
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I like to come into these comments because it gives me a fresh batch of new "centralists" to tag.
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What does right wing mean to you?
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What does right wing mean to YOU?
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Anyone who thinks any different than they do.
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They are both bad in their own ways just one is the lesser of two evils.
But to me both sides suck
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In what world is, "Equality across social and demographic groups" seen as evil?
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Don't let the downvotes change your mind. Lemmy is clearly leftist and you must not be brainwashed into changing your political beliefs to follow the mass. Keep your critical thinking!
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