That community now has one less moderate centrist.
I know where you’re coming from, but I cringe when I hear that term because of the straw man arguments that get thrown around here.
Like, if I were to post a spreadsheet here with all of my views laid out in detail, 99.9% of people, regardless of their local Overton window, would be like “Yep, he’s a lefty.”
But because of the purity testing / extreme positions around here that I do not agree with (mostly related to violence, revolution, and “burn it all down at all costs”), I’ve been called a Nazi, a sympathizer, a fascist, a bootlicker, an “enlightened centrist who only wants to do a little genocide”, and worse.
Nuance here is dead. Godwin’s law is dead. Most of the top-level comments for posts related to current events go straight to some Nazi reference, and where do you even go from there if you want to have any kind of discussion? Conversations are derailed before they even have a chance to get started.
I know where you’re coming from, but I cringe when I hear that term because of the straw man arguments that get thrown around here.
Like, if I were to post a spreadsheet here with all of my views laid out in detail, 99.9% of people, regardless of their local Overton window, would be like “Yep, he’s a lefty.”
But because of the purity testing / extreme positions around here that I do not agree with (mostly related to violence, revolution, and “burn it all down at all costs”), I’ve been called a Nazi, a sympathizer, a fascist, a bootlicker, an “enlightened centrist who only wants to do a little genocide”, and worse.
Nuance here is dead. Godwin’s law is dead. Most of the top-level comments for posts related to current events go straight to some Nazi reference, and where do you even go from there if you want to have any kind of discussion? Conversations are derailed before they even have a chance to get started.