Why is there hostility towards centrists on social media?

What are you talking about??

You've noticed it "for some time" but cannot exemplify it?

I have neither lied nor offered any apologies. If you wish to accuse me of a lie please demonstrate it. If you don't know what paraphrasing is I cannot assist.

I'm not "defensive" on anyone's behalf, I read across your thread attacking 'people who hate centrists' as very many colorful and derisive epithets, and it occured to me, this is the very behavior your are trying to denounce in your messaging on the thread as well. It strikes me as logically incongruent and I wanted to challenge it.

Fancy telling me direct quotes from you are "imagined stuff" while you have not supplied for this thread any of the "hostility on social media" you are citing as your evidence to drive the thread along.

27 posts into this thread some troll/sockpuppet of someone tries to troll the thread, given the chronology, I don't think this is what you meant. Surely you have examples older than the OP that are worth discussing in detail?

If the OP cannot face these challenges about the central purpose of the thread without deflecting to 'why don't you attack so and so' well...

If I may null: if this bothers you you would do well do dispense with routinely putting words in other people's mouth (See above). Drop the loaded questions and just talk with people about your mutual disagreements like you were sitting across from each other at dinner?

If not for you for example I'd have no idea I was rushing to defend the honor of so and so, above.

Sure everyone can relate to some form of centrism so it's not as though we're all incapable of mutual agreements.

Certainly, Null, I'd be happy to treatise:

Here you inform @EmmetSpiceland that really, their opinion is you're a Nazi, when they never said that

You inform @CGI_Livia_Soprano that, contrary to their free will and personal choices, they are unwilling to listen to differing opinions

And again, alternate prose

Oh I thanked #121 the other night BTW. See we do overlap.

No war of attrition here. We've already incidentally agreed once ITT it may happen again.

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For the interest of 'balance' as requested, and trying to keep OP's thread on its rails allow me to meekly note I had already previously reported a post from @CGI_Livia_Soprano as well and it was subsequently removed, so. 'Balance' had already been achieved. I didn't think the thread deserved to be a bashfest. I'm still trying to cut through to the central topic: exemplification of hostility (especially "Hate" and hate speech etc) toward centrists on social media. I'm sure there must be ample examples from beyond the boards platform we could constructively discuss without fraying anyone personally? Users on here attritioning each other as Null neatly put it, doesn't cut into that.

Is the state of being woke exclusively non-centrist? We have very poor definitions even for the term Woke, other than AFAIK being situationally and politically aware of other people and their adversities. By definition wouldn't a centrist be 'woke' in that framework since most of the time centrism is factoring in many facets or viewpoints to determine what the political centroid even is.

I’m guessing @CalamariFritti is referring to ‘radical centrism’ -

Radical centrism (also called the radical center, the radical centre or the radical middle) is a concept that arose in Western nations in the late 20th century.

The radical in the term refers to a willingness on the part of most radical centrists to call for fundamental reform of institutions. The centrism refers to a belief that genuine solutions require realism and pragmatism, not just idealism and emotion. One radical centrist text defines radical centrism as "idealism without illusions", a phrase originally from John F. Kennedy.

Radical centrists borrow ideas from the left and the right, often melding them together. Most support market-basedsolutions to social problems, with strong governmental oversight in the public interest. There is support for increased global engagement and the growth of an empowered middle class in developing countries. In America many radical centrists work within the major political parties, but they also support independent or third-partyinitiatives and candidacies.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_centrism

In fairness to your earlier observation about those who display hostility towards centrists, I’m not even going to pretend I have given the idea of radical centrism any serious consideration, but fundamental reform of institutions, would be well up there in terms of woke 😳

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-09-19/woke-movement-is-global-and-america-should-be-mostly-proud

It doesn't seem like anyone else's definition of woke, @[Deleted User]. Rather it seems to be your own definition of 'woke' overlapping with your definition of a 'centrist' ie. your position as stated is that woke people are slaves to the left or right, and a centrist is the non-slave. Seems like a self-serving and self-validating position to take, but not one which is grounded upon any firm basis.

Yours are the only posts in the thread which brought up slavery as an ideological theme.