#centrism — Public Fediverse posts
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"We told our Left Wing supporters to fuck off and they did, it's entirely their fault" -Labour
#UKPol #UKpolitics #LocalElections #Labour #EpsteinClass #Centrism
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From Romania to the UK, voters reject weak, centrist parties that want to maintain the Status Quo
Such parties would rather their nations fall to the Right than to the Left, a Centrist would sooner goosestep than help their neighbour....#Politics #Centrism #Fascism #Socialism #EUPol #Romania #UKPol #UKPolitics
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A think tank that uses an oxymoron for its name should think again, or it will tank (I am looking at you, Das Progressive Zentrum).
#liberals #progressive #centrism #idiocracy #politics #trump
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A quotation from Theodore Roosevelt
We […] hold the just balance and set ourselves as resolutely against improper corporate influence on the one hand as against demagogy and mob rule on the other. I understand perfectly that such an attitude of moderation is apt to be misunderstood when passions are greatly excited and when victory is apt to rest with the extremists on one side or the other; yet I think it is in the long run the only wise attitude.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Letter (1899, Spring) to Senator Thomas Platt (R-NY)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/4…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #theodoreroosevelt #teddyroosevelt #balance #bigbusiness #business #centrism #corporations #demagoguery #division #extremism #labor #mobrule #moderation
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A quotation from Theodore Roosevelt
We […] hold the just balance and set ourselves as resolutely against improper corporate influence on the one hand as against demagogy and mob rule on the other. I understand perfectly that such an attitude of moderation is apt to be misunderstood when passions are greatly excited and when victory is apt to rest with the extremists on one side or the other; yet I think it is in the long run the only wise attitude.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Letter (1899, Spring) to Senator Thomas Platt (R-NY)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/4…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #theodoreroosevelt #teddyroosevelt #balance #bigbusiness #business #centrism #corporations #demagoguery #division #extremism #labor #mobrule #moderation
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A quotation from Theodore Roosevelt
We […] hold the just balance and set ourselves as resolutely against improper corporate influence on the one hand as against demagogy and mob rule on the other. I understand perfectly that such an attitude of moderation is apt to be misunderstood when passions are greatly excited and when victory is apt to rest with the extremists on one side or the other; yet I think it is in the long run the only wise attitude.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Letter (1899, Spring) to Senator Thomas Platt (R-NY)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/4…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #theodoreroosevelt #teddyroosevelt #balance #bigbusiness #business #centrism #corporations #demagoguery #division #extremism #labor #mobrule #moderation
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A quotation from Theodore Roosevelt
We […] hold the just balance and set ourselves as resolutely against improper corporate influence on the one hand as against demagogy and mob rule on the other. I understand perfectly that such an attitude of moderation is apt to be misunderstood when passions are greatly excited and when victory is apt to rest with the extremists on one side or the other; yet I think it is in the long run the only wise attitude.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Letter (1899, Spring) to Senator Thomas Platt (R-NY)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/4…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #theodoreroosevelt #teddyroosevelt #balance #bigbusiness #business #centrism #corporations #demagoguery #division #extremism #labor #mobrule #moderation
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A quotation from Theodore Roosevelt
We […] hold the just balance and set ourselves as resolutely against improper corporate influence on the one hand as against demagogy and mob rule on the other. I understand perfectly that such an attitude of moderation is apt to be misunderstood when passions are greatly excited and when victory is apt to rest with the extremists on one side or the other; yet I think it is in the long run the only wise attitude.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Letter (1899, Spring) to Senator Thomas Platt (R-NY)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/4…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #theodoreroosevelt #teddyroosevelt #balance #bigbusiness #business #centrism #corporations #demagoguery #division #extremism #labor #mobrule #moderation
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🤦🏻♀️ In Denmark, the Center Did Not Hold
https://jacobin.com/2026/03/denmark-social-democrats-centrism-elections/
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Given the choice, Centrists always side with fascists or the right. #LifeLesson You can't trust centrists. Example:
"the leader of the ailing Liberals, Simona Mohamsson, shocked her party last month by abruptly switching positions on SD, announcing that her party would accept being in government with a far-right force she had previously denounced as racist. She also held a press conference alongside Åkesson in which they hugged."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/01/swedish-pm-offers-deal-that-could-see-far-right-allowed-into-government
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"Many liberals, after the double shock of Trump and Brexit in 2016, confessed their supposed mistakes and performed contrition, along the lines of: we failed to pay attention to the “left-behind”; we must book political safaris in Appalachia; we must closely study Hillbilly Elegy to demonstrate compassion for the heartland. Of course, self-criticism and checking one’s priors is a good thing. But behind the ostentatious displays of “we failed to listen” was also a profound narcissism: if only we acted (or at least talked) differently, all would be well. Only liberals, or so the assumption goes again, have agency; performing contrition reinforced that flattering image.
Even worse, this narcissism keeps shoring up the right’s claim that there is a “real America” and that only they speak for it. As any viewer of Sunday-morning shows has noticed, Republicans can malign city dwellers without anyone batting an eyelid; Obama saying something about guns and religion in rural areas triggers a multiyear scandal. It would not even occur to anyone to demand an apology from GOP members for insulting all urban dwellers. The asymmetry is taken for granted; liberals just accept it. This is what victory in a culture war looks like: Democrats accept the cultural framings enforced by the other side, even though polls would suggest that the liberals’ positions are often more popular (or, dare one say, reflect more about “real America” than the far-right fantasies pushed by Fox and its far-right friends)."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/03/anti-woke-liberals-helped-trump-win
#Liberalism #Liberals #Centrism #ReactionaryCentrism #Fascism #Woke #AntiWoke
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"Many liberals, after the double shock of Trump and Brexit in 2016, confessed their supposed mistakes and performed contrition, along the lines of: we failed to pay attention to the “left-behind”; we must book political safaris in Appalachia; we must closely study Hillbilly Elegy to demonstrate compassion for the heartland. Of course, self-criticism and checking one’s priors is a good thing. But behind the ostentatious displays of “we failed to listen” was also a profound narcissism: if only we acted (or at least talked) differently, all would be well. Only liberals, or so the assumption goes again, have agency; performing contrition reinforced that flattering image.
Even worse, this narcissism keeps shoring up the right’s claim that there is a “real America” and that only they speak for it. As any viewer of Sunday-morning shows has noticed, Republicans can malign city dwellers without anyone batting an eyelid; Obama saying something about guns and religion in rural areas triggers a multiyear scandal. It would not even occur to anyone to demand an apology from GOP members for insulting all urban dwellers. The asymmetry is taken for granted; liberals just accept it. This is what victory in a culture war looks like: Democrats accept the cultural framings enforced by the other side, even though polls would suggest that the liberals’ positions are often more popular (or, dare one say, reflect more about “real America” than the far-right fantasies pushed by Fox and its far-right friends)."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/03/anti-woke-liberals-helped-trump-win
#Liberalism #Liberals #Centrism #ReactionaryCentrism #Fascism #Woke #AntiWoke
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"Many liberals, after the double shock of Trump and Brexit in 2016, confessed their supposed mistakes and performed contrition, along the lines of: we failed to pay attention to the “left-behind”; we must book political safaris in Appalachia; we must closely study Hillbilly Elegy to demonstrate compassion for the heartland. Of course, self-criticism and checking one’s priors is a good thing. But behind the ostentatious displays of “we failed to listen” was also a profound narcissism: if only we acted (or at least talked) differently, all would be well. Only liberals, or so the assumption goes again, have agency; performing contrition reinforced that flattering image.
Even worse, this narcissism keeps shoring up the right’s claim that there is a “real America” and that only they speak for it. As any viewer of Sunday-morning shows has noticed, Republicans can malign city dwellers without anyone batting an eyelid; Obama saying something about guns and religion in rural areas triggers a multiyear scandal. It would not even occur to anyone to demand an apology from GOP members for insulting all urban dwellers. The asymmetry is taken for granted; liberals just accept it. This is what victory in a culture war looks like: Democrats accept the cultural framings enforced by the other side, even though polls would suggest that the liberals’ positions are often more popular (or, dare one say, reflect more about “real America” than the far-right fantasies pushed by Fox and its far-right friends)."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/03/anti-woke-liberals-helped-trump-win
#Liberalism #Liberals #Centrism #ReactionaryCentrism #Fascism #Woke #AntiWoke
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"Many liberals, after the double shock of Trump and Brexit in 2016, confessed their supposed mistakes and performed contrition, along the lines of: we failed to pay attention to the “left-behind”; we must book political safaris in Appalachia; we must closely study Hillbilly Elegy to demonstrate compassion for the heartland. Of course, self-criticism and checking one’s priors is a good thing. But behind the ostentatious displays of “we failed to listen” was also a profound narcissism: if only we acted (or at least talked) differently, all would be well. Only liberals, or so the assumption goes again, have agency; performing contrition reinforced that flattering image.
Even worse, this narcissism keeps shoring up the right’s claim that there is a “real America” and that only they speak for it. As any viewer of Sunday-morning shows has noticed, Republicans can malign city dwellers without anyone batting an eyelid; Obama saying something about guns and religion in rural areas triggers a multiyear scandal. It would not even occur to anyone to demand an apology from GOP members for insulting all urban dwellers. The asymmetry is taken for granted; liberals just accept it. This is what victory in a culture war looks like: Democrats accept the cultural framings enforced by the other side, even though polls would suggest that the liberals’ positions are often more popular (or, dare one say, reflect more about “real America” than the far-right fantasies pushed by Fox and its far-right friends)."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/03/anti-woke-liberals-helped-trump-win
#Liberalism #Liberals #Centrism #ReactionaryCentrism #Fascism #Woke #AntiWoke
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"Many liberals, after the double shock of Trump and Brexit in 2016, confessed their supposed mistakes and performed contrition, along the lines of: we failed to pay attention to the “left-behind”; we must book political safaris in Appalachia; we must closely study Hillbilly Elegy to demonstrate compassion for the heartland. Of course, self-criticism and checking one’s priors is a good thing. But behind the ostentatious displays of “we failed to listen” was also a profound narcissism: if only we acted (or at least talked) differently, all would be well. Only liberals, or so the assumption goes again, have agency; performing contrition reinforced that flattering image.
Even worse, this narcissism keeps shoring up the right’s claim that there is a “real America” and that only they speak for it. As any viewer of Sunday-morning shows has noticed, Republicans can malign city dwellers without anyone batting an eyelid; Obama saying something about guns and religion in rural areas triggers a multiyear scandal. It would not even occur to anyone to demand an apology from GOP members for insulting all urban dwellers. The asymmetry is taken for granted; liberals just accept it. This is what victory in a culture war looks like: Democrats accept the cultural framings enforced by the other side, even though polls would suggest that the liberals’ positions are often more popular (or, dare one say, reflect more about “real America” than the far-right fantasies pushed by Fox and its far-right friends)."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/03/anti-woke-liberals-helped-trump-win
#Liberalism #Liberals #Centrism #ReactionaryCentrism #Fascism #Woke #AntiWoke
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"In a newspaper column, reactionary centrism can seem like level-headed pragmatism. But proximity to power reveals its dogmatism and incoherence. The theory is that validating national populist or even fascist values and moving towards them on policy will capture some of the voters seduced by the promises of parties further to the right. Every time Labour tries this, Reform gains ground and Labour’s own coalition disintegrates further. Yet the party remains committed to the strategy.
An actual pragmatist would evaluate and change course. Someone who understood public opinion might notice that anti-immigrant sentiment responds to media coverage, not objective reality. They might reason that this is not a problem that can be addressed by policy concessions because policy is not what is causing it. They might even consider offering a different narrative and seeing whether that makes a dent. A truly daring politician might consider telling the British public the truth: that they are being lied to by the right-wing press about the cause of the country's problems, and that Reform is capitalising on this for political gain.The government does not seem inclined to do any of this. Despite understanding themselves as critical thinkers, reactionary centrists are conformists at heart. And they are so unmoored in our current age because, increasingly, there is no social consensus for them to conform to. Affluent countries the world over are balkanising into fascist and anti-fascist factions. One must simply pick a side. There is no longer such a thing as “British public opinion” (if there ever was). Rather, half the country supports socially illiberal parties and half supports (broadly speaking) liberal ones, similar to the split in the Brexit referendum. If we follow international trends, the values of these two sides will only grow more irreconcilable."
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/70966/what-is-a-reactionary-centrist-does-uk-have-them
#USA #UK #FarRight #Fascism #Centrism #ReactionaryCentrism #Propaganda #Disinformation #Ideology
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Greens are going to win this like Plaid Cymru won against Reform....give the people some Hope and they will vote for you.
Tell them "More of the same, think of the markets" and off they go, right or left, anywhere but central.
#Greens #GreenParty #GPEW #Labour #ReformUK #GortonAndDenton #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Centrism
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RE: https://sharkey.world/notes/ahsq11b7wj6l00k9
Trump looks so silly in this picture :D
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No 'Moderate' has ever voted for Trump.
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Would Keir Starmer criticise his own midnight abduction by Yankee Murder Boys or just kiss the Boot?
He has to go.
#KeirStarmer #Starmer #Venezuela #ClanOfPaedophiles #ElbowsUp #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Carney #Centrism #InternationalLaw
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Centrists will sell out the EU to the highest bidder....
#EUPOL #Starmer #Merz #Centrism #Venezuela #ClanOfPaedophiles
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Merz and Starmer looking the other why while Europe is under threat, it's time for weak Centrist cowards to step aside and let braver people lead.
#Greenland #ClanOfPaedophiles #USPOL #USPOLITICS #Merz #Starmer #Centrism #Colonialism #Imperialism
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"Be more like us" says the rapist bully in the White House
"Ok boss" says the coward in No 10
#Fascism #Centrism #Appeasement #Politics #WhiteHouse #No10 #WhiteNationalism #Arkansas
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It's shit like giving an Enoch Powell style speech titled "Island of Strangers" and then when the Whites go on another race riot, he walks that back like it meant nothing.
#KeirStarmer #Starmer #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Trust #IslandOfStrangers #Centrism #Fascism #Immigration #Whiteness #WhiteNationalism
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Watching Centrism hand it over to Fascism in France....
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jfc...told you the Dems could piss it all away...
They are the UK Labour of American Politics.
#Dems #Socialism #IdentityPolitics #GOP #Quislings #Centrism #USPOL #USPOLITICS
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Around the Western World people are asking the same thing of their Centrist Governments...
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-is-this-man-in-charge-of-anything
#ChuckSchumer #Centrism #Politics #Schumer #Quislings #Appeasement #Fascism
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40 days of suffering and Schumer comes back with....nothing.
Nothing but promises, from people who don't keep them.
Big fucking achievement Chuck, hope you've left a chapter for it in your biography..../s
#USPOL #USPOLITICS #Centrism #ChuckSchumer #Schumer #Quislings #Appeasement #trump
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I hear Keir Starmer is making records in unpopularity as well, it would appear that enabling Trump is an unpopular move for people who aren't MAGA
#Starmer #Schumer #ChuckSchumer #KeirStarmer #Politics #USPOL #USPOLITICS #Centrism #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Fascism #trump #Appeasement #Quislings
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Centrists pave the way for Fascism by being weak and cowardly. They know what Fascism is and how it works, they've chosen to bow down to it rather than fight.
For an example of this, see how Starmer isn't defending the BBC against Fascist aggression, he's too busy covering his own ass in his failing premiership. Do we think he'll ever stand up to that appalling paedophile in the White House?
#Centrism #Fascism #ChuckSchumer #Schumer #Starmer #KeirStarmer #Politics
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"I mean, there's a reason I don't subscribe to the New York Times anymore, and I don't listen to Ezra Klein. I can't—it doesn't work. It doesn't work."
#Democrats #shutdown #Senate #pushover #capitulation #surrender #centrism #NewYorkTimes #EzraKlein
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Noting that "centrism is dead in the water," Wajahat Ali asks Jess Craven to make the case for centrism for him. She replies:
"Please, you're asking the wrong person. It drives me crazy. I'll make the case for walking away from anybody who tells you that centrism is the answer."
~ Jess Craven
#Democrats #shutdown #Senate #pushover #capitulation #surrender #centrism #NewYorkTimes #EzraKlein
/3https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-age-of-democratic-centrism-must
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"Please, my rich friends....they're better than you, you must understand...you're all being very unfair"
#USPOL #USPOLITICS #Dems #Mamdani #ZohranMamdani #ChuckSchumer #Schumer #GovernmentShutdown #DemocraticSocialism #Centrism
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"People are astonished, people are indignant. People say: "How strange! But, bah! It's Nazism, it'll pass! And people wait, and hope; and people hide the truth to themselves – that it's barbarism, but the supreme barbarism, the one that crowns, the one that sums up the everyday barbarities; that it's Nazism, yes, but that before being its victims, people were its accomplices; that people put up with this Nazism before suffering it, people absolved it, people turned a blind eye to it, people legitimised it, because until then it had only been applied to non-European peoples; that people nurtured this Nazism, people are responsible for it, and that it bubbles, that it pierces, that it drips, before engulfing people in its reddened waters, from all the cracks in the Western and Christian civilisation."
Aimé Césaire in "Discours sur le colonialisme", 1950
#moderates #complicity #civilisation #Césaire #AiméCésaire #Hitler #nazism #fascism #history #centrism #Germany #quotes #quotes #coloniality #genocide #racism
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"Since the Seventies, America’s deficits have provided East Asia (first Japan, then China) and Europe (primarily Germany) the demand for their factories’ manufactures. In return, the European Union, Japan and later China sent their accumulated profits to Wall Street to be recycled into US private and public debt, some equities, and real estate. A Chinese official once described this mechanism to me as a “dark deal”. “Our Dark Deal with the Americans,” the official explained, “turns on the US trade deficit, which keeps demand for our manufactures high. In return, our capitalists invest the bulk of their dollar superprofits into America’s FIRE”. (The acronym stands for “Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate.”) “Once this process got underway, America shifted much of its industrial production to our shores.”
The problem with this global recycling mechanism was that, to function smoothly, it had to generate larger and larger imbalances: greater trade deficits for the US and more accumulated savings for Northern Europe and East Asia. But there are limits to how large imbalances can grow. Ruptures are inevitable. The longer they are delayed, the greater the pain they inflict — a truth that centrists never acknowledged, not even when it was tearing down their houses.
Trump’s greatest strength comes from asking the pressing question that the centrists refuse to countenance: what comes after the Dark Deal? What comes after the imbalances built on the US trade deficit have proven unsustainably massive? Scott Bessent, Trump’s Treasury Secretary, put it succinctly in a recent speech at the IMF: “Everywhere we look across the international economic system today, we see imbalance… This status quo of large and persistent imbalances is not sustainable… The persistent over-reliance on the United States for demand is resulting in an evermore unbalanced global economy.”"
https://unherd.com/2025/05/the-centrist-comeback-wont-last/
#Centrism #Liberalism #USA #Trump #FreeTrade #PoliticalEconomy #TradeDeficit #PublicDebt
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Political spectrum, TL; DR:
Libertarian socialism/anarchism: “Fuck hierarchy!”
Right libertarianism: “Fuck your (state) hierarchy, long live my (corporate) hierarchy!”
Authoritarian socialism: “Fuck your (corporate) hierarchy, long live my (state) hierarchy!”
Centrism: “Fuck you, I got mine!”
#politics #philosophy #anarchism #socialism #libertarianism #centrism #neoliberalism #hierarchy #state #corporate #tldr #politicalSpectrum
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Why #Centrism Is Morally Indefensible: #TimUrban’s new book, endorsed by the stinking birdsite billionaire, shows how #centrists care more about civility (#MLK's negative #peace) than #justice (positive peace), and hate ‘#socialjustice fundamentalism’ more than #plutocracy.
#WhiteModerate #KKKaren #WhiteSupremacy #Equality #Antiracism #StatusQuo #UnwarrantedDefault #Whitegaze #SystemicRacism #TerribleWayToLiveIfYoureNotConsideredWhite
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Why #Centrism Is Morally Indefensible: #TimUrban’s new book, endorsed by the stinking birdsite billionaire, shows how #centrists care more about civility (#MLK's negative #peace) than #justice (positive peace), and hate ‘#socialjustice fundamentalism’ more than #plutocracy.
#WhiteModerate #KKKaren #WhiteSupremacy #Equality #Antiracism #StatusQuo #UnwarrantedDefault #Whitegaze #SystemicRacism #TerribleWayToLiveIfYoureNotConsideredWhite
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Why #Centrism Is Morally Indefensible: #TimUrban’s new book, endorsed by the stinking birdsite billionaire, shows how #centrists care more about civility (#MLK's negative #peace) than #justice (positive peace), and hate ‘#socialjustice fundamentalism’ more than #plutocracy.
#WhiteModerate #KKKaren #WhiteSupremacy #Equality #Antiracism #StatusQuo #UnwarrantedDefault #Whitegaze #SystemicRacism #TerribleWayToLiveIfYoureNotConsideredWhite
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Why #Centrism Is Morally Indefensible: #TimUrban’s new book, endorsed by the stinking birdsite billionaire, shows how #centrists care more about civility (#MLK's negative #peace) than #justice (positive peace), and hate ‘#socialjustice fundamentalism’ more than #plutocracy.
#WhiteModerate #KKKaren #WhiteSupremacy #Equality #Antiracism #StatusQuo #UnwarrantedDefault #Whitegaze #SystemicRacism #TerribleWayToLiveIfYoureNotConsideredWhite
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Why #Centrism Is Morally Indefensible: #TimUrban’s new book, endorsed by the stinking birdsite billionaire, shows how #centrists care more about civility (#MLK's negative #peace) than #justice (positive peace), and hate ‘#socialjustice fundamentalism’ more than #plutocracy.
#WhiteModerate #KKKaren #WhiteSupremacy #Equality #Antiracism #StatusQuo #UnwarrantedDefault #Whitegaze #SystemicRacism #TerribleWayToLiveIfYoureNotConsideredWhite
