• FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    When I have centrist views about anything (not just politics but more trivial matters like pop culture), I’m reluctant to share them online because extremists on both sides interpret you as an extremist on the opposing side

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        2 months ago

        That’s still an oversimplification. In reality political opinion varies across a spectrum; it’s not just hard left, hard right, or no opinion. My own views for example are a little left of centre with a leaning towards liberty (i.e. away from authoritarian). So of course I get called a nazi by the hard left, and a tankie by the hard right, both of which are utter nonsense.

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          2 months ago

          a little left of centre with a leaning towards liberty (i.e. away from authoritarian).

          Interesting. Tell me, what’s your opinion on the banning of Palestinian Action?

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            4 hours ago

            I can answer this now we’ve got some additional information: Male PA activist strikes female PC with a sledge hammer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g54g1r15eo

            PA refused to denounce this individual but instead claimed this was planned, intentional, and will be repeated in future.

            Ban = Quite Right.

            If it was just property destruction then a ban would probably have been a bit excessive but GBH changes that equation drastically. That PC could have been killed for just doing her job. This is absolutely not acceptable, and PA supporters* need to be ashamed of themselves.

            *As distinct from “Palestine supporters”. Still nothing wrong with protesting in favour of a misogynistic, homophobic, antidemocratic, murderous cult, although it’s beyond me why anyone in the West would want to.

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              4 hours ago

              Ban = Quite Right.

              So you don’t actually “lean away from authoritarian” at all, you just want it to be wielded against your own political enemies.

              Still nothing wrong with protesting in favour of a misogynistic, homophobic, antidemocratic, murderous cult

              Ah, so you are, in fact, a genocidal fascist. I suppose it makes sense why you lied then.