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[–] 45 points 2 days ago (4 children)

UK-based Palestinian-Lebanese researcher Elia Ayoub has defined the term [reactionary centrists] as "centrists who often validate perceived concerns of the right and far right while blaming the left for the failures of centrist politics... those who are convinced that the way to do politics is to effectively treat the far right as ‘the people’, the default, the silent majority. They don’t view themselves as right wingers, but act as though right wing politics are always more popular with ‘the people.’"

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  • [–] 26 points 2 days ago

    100%. This explains why the Overton window of political thought in the West has moved so much to the right. In the UK, far right, black shirted masked agitators are referred to by the centrist Labour Party as people with ‘legitimate concerns’

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