Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this.

• Diva@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You can totally have centrist extremists

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• Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    i think more the first

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    • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • Edie@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror — that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.

        Taken from redsails.org/the-two-terrors/

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