[whatwhaaaaat]

Politics isn’t a line. Center in most countries is “fine with whatever the government tells me” from forced medical experimentation to genocide.

You’re right tho in that it does seem like people who reject the lies their government tells them may be slightly more likely to say things that upset you on the internet (since I’m guessing that’s what you mean by persicution)

[mrweasel]

I was using persecution as a response to the parent post, which I took to mean that the far left and right are more likely to persecute political opponents and expect persecution themselves, so they are reluctant to approve of government surveillance out of fear that they are on the receiving.

[nozzlegear]

> Center in most countries is “fine with whatever the government tells me” from forced medical experimentation to genocide.

This is a strawman, plain and simple. Calling the political center of any country "fine with genocide" isn't an argument, it's a smear. I'm a centrist democrat, I'm not fine with either of those things and you'd be hard pressed to find someone who is. You can disagree with moderates like me, but painting them as compliant with atrocities is dishonest and lazy.

> Politics isn’t a line

No disagreement here, sometimes it's a horseshoe and you're proving the theory true.

[const_cast]

> Calling the political center of any country "fine with genocide" isn't an argument, it's a smear.

Well the US isn't doing genocide really so yeah it's a smear.

But moderates run the status-quo. MLK talked about how the biggest hurdle to integration and civil rights wasn't racists - it was the moderate white man. Ultimately things are the way they are because there are so many moderates who propose no solutions to anything and are terrified of anything that could be misconstrued as a change.

Moderates are, by in large, complacent with atrocities currently going on in the government they belong to. Moderates in Israel certainly seem fine with genocide. Moderates in the US are fine with the US' war-mongering. They're fine with the pseudo-slavery system that exists in some US states like Georgia.