I often see on here that someone that says they are Center just means they are right wing.
Eg. this post https://piefed.social/c/wikipedia@lemmy.world/p/2492350/centre-party
Center Party = Far right.
And I get that that is often true, but that got me thinking, when is someone actually “Center?”
It doesn’t have to be an ideology.
People don’t fit neatly into boxes or necessarily have to subscribe to an ideology fully.
Centrilsts might be politically naive yes, but that doesn’t just make them Right wing automatically?
you’re trying to be rational and thoughtful here.
that makes you an evil centrist, clearly.
the people on lemmy here don’t want to discuss things, they just want to label you as awful for not being as politically hardcore or pure or whatever as they believe themselves to be.
Centrism is the ideology of not having an ideology. If you’re not working from root axioms, if you’re just winging every moral decision… that’s being a loser, not politically intelligent.
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and what happens when my axioms are in conflict with yours?
or my axiom is self interest above all else, such that hypocrisy is useful tool to manipulate others?
call me names all you want if it makes you feel better, is that one of your axioms? mock anyone who asks you a question that challenges your assumption?
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Right, anyone who isn’t you is trash. Sounds like a convenient axiom.
Centrism describes the views you have, not the methods you have used to obtain those views, so this is incorrect on a base level. Someone who thinks through their views from first principles and lands on having views between the current left and right (somehow, seems hard to do but it’s possible) is a centrist. Someone who wings their views and pays no attention to politics at all but happens to align more with a right or left ideology is not a centrist.
Centrism. Not finding yourself in the center.
Yes I know what you said. I’m doing this thing called disagreeing where I think something different than what you do.
lol
It’s comments and people like you that divide us
Why I hate being left sometimes
No it isn’t… I’m not feeling very divided by that guy.
Speak for yourself, the left alienates allies.
Ok
- Person currently causing division
lol no.
It’s people like you who insist labels are more important than beliefs that divide us. Genuinely, your ignorance is beyond vile in this context.
I don’t think OP is the one here I’d say is obsessed with labels. The entire question is basically just asking what’s behind them.