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Title: ''Stop glorifying ‘centrism’'' an interesting debating point ....... to some
Post by: SydneyRover on June 02, 2021, 11:53:47 pm

''The notion of a neutral and moderate middle is a prejudice of people for whom the system is working, against those for whom it’s not''

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/28/centrism-insidious-bias-unjust-status-quo

Title: Re: ''Stop glorifying ‘centrism’'' an interesting debating point ....... to some
Post by: SydneyRover on June 04, 2021, 12:02:52 am

from the article

''Martin Luther King himself famously declared, “I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice …” As King notes, the status quo is always changing, and the centrists are often resistant to change that expands rights and justice, more mild about efforts by the right to shrink those things in favor of more inequality and more authoritarianism''