What's wrong with centrism? All I ever see is negativity

The negativity comes from three directions:

First, obviously, is extremists who want to counter the culturally prevalent idea that extremism is inherently bad.

Second is as a backlash against smug younglings who hide behind centrism as if it is an immovable position and who think they can achieve intellectual high-ground by splitting any debate down the middle.

Third is people who misunderstand the "appeal to the middle" fallacy and stretch it to mean "Any middle position is wrong"

>>2915084
Its not edgy enough for most kids on 4chan

>>2915084
people see them as cowards.

>>2915194
This, people hate pragmatists focused on solving problem and making deals.

>>2915084
Centrism's approach is wrong because you want to find balance for the sake of balance. There is no balance between the honest and dishonest when you're seeking truth. There is no balance between a good man and an evil man when seeking justice and fairness.

>>2915200
You do realize that there are left and right wingers who take concepts and ideas from the other end, right? Trying to go the full spectrum is retarded anyways. National Socialism for example is pretty Left Wing for an ideology associated with the Right.

Anyone who looks at centrism as a literal split between two sides is thinking with the wrong mindset if you ask me. I don't think that most real-world problems can be approached with solutions or opinions that fit on a completely linear spectrum.

The way I see it, centrism is more about compromise or using a sort of "skillful means" approach, looking at each individual case as opposed to applying a single ideal to everything.

It think it gets a bad rap as a harbor for indecisiveness and/or laziness, since it is a pretty safe position to take and you could avoid any strong opposition with someone else. Though for people who are actually serious about instigating change or something, it seems like the logical mindset to have in order to look at issues more comprehensively.

>>2915200
>Centrism's approach is wrong because you want to find balance for the sake of balance.
wew lad

>>2915084
There is a widely spread misconception that centrists hold no strong beliefs of their own

>>2915084
Cute pic, dude.
What anime?

>>2915084
because approaching situations in a case by case basis instead of rigid adherence to a set of ideological principles gets called out as "flip flopping." leaders are traditionally scorned for acknowledging when the "other team" actually has a good idea.

>>2915200
Life being a constant struggle between cosmic forces of good and evil is an autistic way to view the world, and that's exactly the type of thinking that the left vs. right dichotomy plants into people's minds.
>all conservatives are racist nazis!
>all leftists are anti-white SJWs!

There are clear differences in things like truth and untruth but applying that line of thought to complex issues leads to conclusions that are more untruthful than not.

The problem is that there are arguably two 'definitions' of centrism. One is where a person looks at both sides of the political spectrum and decides to try and make equal compromises. These aspects are not necessarily confined to centrists, you can find them in liberals and conservatives as well. The difference is that these people we call centrists tend to do this way more often. The other 'definition' is a person with a mixing of right and left wing views. For example, this 'definition' is similar to how calling someone a liberal just means that you are assigning them a certain range of places on the political spectrum(simplistic, I know). Since some countries are more liberal/more conservative than others, their centrists could also be more left/right than those in other countries. Things get more complicated in that real centrists are never usually one or the other and they often combine the two in varying ratios.

It's easy to say that centrists have no opinion and are just people pleasers when you forget the second definition. It's also arguably possible to say that centrists are too extreme in one direction if you hold a radical political view like anarchism.

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