#centrism — Public Fediverse posts
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Oh, here I was worried sensible reform might be pursued
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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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Does adopting far-right rhetoric help the political centre?
Researchers in Berlin have found centrist parties are allowing far-right parties to dominate political debate by repeating their rhetoric.
Chancellor Merz's recent remarks on Germany's "cityscape" are the latest example.
#Politics #FarRight #Centrism #Rhetoric #Immigration #Germany #PoliticalDebate #Science
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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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I learned about the term #Enlightened #Centrism on the weekend and I love it (not them). I had known the principle, but had never known the term.
Enlightened Centrists are - for example, Elon Musk, Jordan Peterson - who supposedly seek a centrist view, but usually wind up attacking the left and defending the right.
Because they don't understand the paradox of intolerance, or that unfettered libertarianism never works in practice because some people will always be selfish greedy assholes.
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Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: Harlan Crow Gave $500,000 to Bari Weiss to Start 'Anti-Woke' Nonprofit https://jezebel.com/harlan-crow-gave-500-000-to-bari-weiss-to-start-anti-w-1850510031 #Jezebel #indigenouspeoplesofnorthamerica #regionsoftheunitedstates #nativeamericantribes #christopherrufo #andrewsullivan #socialissues #suzyedelman #harlancrow #megynkelly #crownation #bariweiss #elonmusk #centrism #fair
