Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this.
Diva@lemmy.ml 2 days agoI wouldn’t want anyone going down an extremist pipeline on either side of the political spectrum.
This isn’t a binary thing, there’s plenty of centrist extremists and echo chambers for them
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
centrism isn’t extremism
Diva@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
You can totally have centrist extremists
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Are you using “extremism” to mean “far from the status quo,” or “has absolute belief and violent justification for said belief?” Centrists can absolutely be the latter.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
i think more the first
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
The others here are using it the second way, which I agree with. Centrism meaning the “status quo” can be violently and toxically upheld.