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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
I know you’re relatively new here, or at least your account is but I did find this statement kind of funny. Not so much because I think you’re wrong, it’s just I’m probably the last poster on here that you should be making a generalization to about people running away from threads when the majority disagrees with them.
See you’re still stuck on using labels to make your points without giving any context as to what you think about the people who you’re labelling. Is centrist good or bad? How about left, right, up, down? Using these terms in substitution of actual commentary really makes it difficult to figure out what point you’re trying to make.
Example:
The centrist took a wrong right turn and then a right left turn.
In English this basically means the centrist made two turns, meanwhile in online political speak/jargon this statement could be interpreted in many different ways yet really says nothing at all since we are given no indication of the poster’s opinion on centrist, right or left.
Personally I actually think it’s pretty easy to figure out when you’re in one, but I can see how what you’re saying can be true for many people. Feels like I should mention that you didn’t answer my initial question at all.
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You're quite right: left and right are pretty hackneyed terms. They're also relative terms. But unless we want to get into highly detailed policy descriptions for our individual special snowflake basket of policies, we need some words to carry to conversation forward.