Political Memes

I run into this on dating apps. “Centrist” and “apolitical” are both code for “conservative.”

Funny how there's a bunch of people in the comments essentially just unironically repeating the meme: "Well this must be wrong because I believe this and I'm actually a centrist!!!"

That's the point, buddy. You're the butt of the joke. The idea that the far-left and far-right are equally bad or warrant the same amount of scrutiny and criticism is a right-wing belief.

To make the point more obvious instead of using "left" and "right" look at specific political beliefs that the far-left and far-right have:

1. Equality across social and demographic groups vs. State-enforced racism, sexism and other kinds of bigotry

2. Abolishment of bourgeois property and money vs. Complete privatization, oligarchy and corruption

3. Globalization, peaceful relations and a right to live where you want vs. Complete isolationism and xenophobia

4. Right to self-governance and no government with a monopoly on violence vs. State sanctioned violence against those considered undesirable or traitors

Hopefully I don't need to explain which one is obviously worse. To equate what the far-left and the far-right advocate for one must misrepresent the left, so both-sides-ism inherently has a right-wing slant.

An older acronym for the same thing, BSABSVR

Both Sides Are Bad So Vote Republican.

Both sides exclude me for holding my particular set of opinions. I'm on my side, fuck you!

This is some crazy doublethink shit. It's clear just looking at the inconsistent interpretation from all the top-level comments that 'centrist' is a blanket term that both describes 'centrist' positions and also 'left/right radicals'. The only consistent is whether the subject is subjecting the in-group to criticism

The same user constantly harps on 'far-left' progressives complaining about democratic positions, and calls himself a centrist.

This is just standard 'out-group' gatekeeping. "If you're not with us, you're against us" shit.

I'd rather have a politician who does absolutely nothing than a fascist.

They’re not political, they just wantt to see common sense policies on immigration (for brown people) and crime (for brown people).

As long as you're amoral and self-serving, you can only be a "right winger", whatever that means. It's only when you dispel the myth of moral relativism and believe that, yeah, some things ARE wrong (and we should avoid and condemn them, of course), that you can start becoming a person worth existing and worth listening to. And if you're not very smart nor very brave you might be a "non radical" "leftist" but hey, your heart is probably in the right place so I'm not gonna hate (too much).

I have never met a "centrist" on social media who wasn't. Same with the horseshoe theory.

Let's take America: are you for democracy or against it? - "I can see both sides" - wtf? Fascist enabler, at best.

On the other hand, the kneejerk of labeling every even remotely centrist viewpoint as inherently dishonest is pretty annoying. My own views lean SocDem and I've found voicing any opinion which is neither solidly left-wing or solidly right-wing, especially if it does not align with very American-centric views of the political spectrum, often elicits unpleasant reactions. Nuance is hard, I guess.

Another one I noticed is they say shit like "well they're saying two opposite things, so you cannot know the truth". Mother fucker, if you dig a tiny bit the truth is out there, waiting for you, but they cannot accept one side is lying (it's theirs)

As a centrist, I approve with this message. An actual centrist does not compromise with nazis.