whenever you see someone harping about "centrism" and "moderates" ask them:
are you a moderate fascist?
what does centrist fascism look like?
it is at this point MALICIOUS how so-called centrists and moderates are holding on to the monikers when Trump has fulfilled the GOP's strategy of mainstreaming fascism with his MAGA movement.
NO. there is no moderate or centrist FASCISM. that's like saying you can have kinder genocide and gentler eugenics.
@blogdiva Right. What's the compromise position between "People like me should be allowed to live our lives unmolested and with full rights" and "People like you should be put into camps and then exterminated"?
Obviously there isn't one and it's moronic and evil to suggest there is.
@hllizi In my mind it was a member of out group (which I am) saying, "hey, I deserve rights and freedom" and the fascist saying, "no we're gonna kill you"
sorry if it wasn't clear or seemed to suggest something else
but yeah, the "compromise" people LOVE to think of this as a bunch of abstraction that affects no one (cause it don't affect them) but I don't have that luxury
@etherdiver that was exactly how I understood your toot, I found it crystal clear. My point is that the compromisers don't regard the out group as a party in its own right.
@hllizi fair, that is unquestionably true. def easier to negotiate the surrender of a group you don't belong to and don't consider important or worthy, and for centrists, that's everyone who isn't a centrist.
This. I keep hearing people say we need to stop being so polarized and find a moderate center.
Nope. Anyone pushing any part of the MAGAt agenda is helping to push all of it. And it is evil to its core. It's a part-of-the-problem-or-else-part-of-the-solution situation.
Like it or not, there only two choices: them or us. And they want to hurt a lot of us.
You're right. There is no "center" to be occupied.
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