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What's hard to understand? Picture a spectrum with three points labeled "left", "center", and "right" respectively. Each point is a "position", none of them are neutral (because they all exist on the spectrum).


Because the center has to be qualitatively different from the others in order to escape the cycle of critique presented in the original argument.

Otherwise, why is critique of the center different from attacking the left or the right? Why would attacking the center be the "craziest narrative"?

The OP's post has a hidden premise, otherwise it does not lead to his conclusion.


> Otherwise, why is critique of the center different from attacking the left or the right?

Presmably the OP meant "it's crazy to attack the center with equal fervor that one applies to the opposite extreme". E.g., leftists attacking everyone to their right as uniformly "far right", using language like "white supremacist" and "literal Nazi" to describe anyone who is not far-left, etc.




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