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Why does left wing advocates hate centrists? (lemy.lol)

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I just noticed that one of the news communities here discourage the use of least biased/centrist news sources and I saw some people who put that they hate centrists in their bios.

All is that is kind of weird to me and does not make sense, as I thought that all sides should encourage ideas from centrists and least biased sources.

Is there is something that I miss here?

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[-] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago

To me, it seems the right have been getting ever more extreme in the ugliest ways imaginable. The left, then, has to decide whether to become more inclusive of those who lean somewhat right but are feeling alienated at this point. Do they take in the refugees, or do they stick to their principles and leave a void in the middle? In short, it's an identity crisis and people are taking sides.

As a Canadian, I look at US politics and see only a centrist and right party. In some ways, the Democratic Party is further right than our Conservative Party, though the latter would certainly want to change that if we let them. There are some Democrats who are uncompromisingly left like say Bernie Sanders, but they are in the minority.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Also of note, "centrist" does not mean "unbiased" in America. On a world scale, yes we have a center-ish party and a right party. This means anyone calling themself a centrist is pretty far right. So anyone with a centrist position from a global perspective is actually considered a "leftist" in America.

I'll see people say "I'm not on either side but" and then spew nothing but Republican talking points, or some shit about how both sides do bad things as if they're equally bad.

Lemmy is mostly various flavors of left, and they recognize the nuance of "centrism" enough to decry it.

[-] Hydra_Fk@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago

The fact that you feel Bernie Sanders is "uncompromisingly left", speaks volumes. About what? Clean drinking water, education so your dumb ass kids can read, not wanting to sell bombs used to kill other kids, a livable wage?

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