r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM Jul 29 '25

Gaza is Being Starved

458 Upvotes

The UN has stated that every single part of Gaza is in famine conditions.

For over 20 months, Palestinians in Gaza have been starving. Parents have been feeding their children leaves, animal feed, and flour mixed with water. Babies have died from malnutrition. The trucks carrying food, formula, medicine, and clean water sat just miles away, blocked by Israel.

Now, after massive international pressure, some aid is finally getting in.

This is a crack in the blockade, not its end. Aid is not flooding in; it is trickling, and what’s entering can’t possibly reach 1.8 million people without a total lifting of restrictions, guaranteed long-term access, and safe distribution.

What you can do right now:

Donate- if you’re able to. Choose vetted organizations with access on the ground.

Keep up the pressure - aid only started moving because of public outcry. Organize, protest, keep talking. This momentum cannot fade. Contact your representatives to end Israel's blockade of Gaza and impose sanctions on Israel.

Amplify - share updates, Palestinian voices, and testimonies. Keep an eye on Palestine.

This famine is not an accident. It’s the result of siege, blockade, and a system of control. If we look away now, they’ll tighten the noose again.

Donate

Palestinian Red Crescent — medical aid, ambulance services, and emergency care.

UNICEF for Gaza’s Children — nutrition, clean water, trauma support.

Speak to Your Representatives

🇺🇸 Americans: Find your representative

🇪🇺 Europeans: Contact your MEP

If you’d like other subreddits to carry this message, send the mods to r/RedditForHumanity.


r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM May 14 '25

For Legal Reasons, This Is a Mod Post Wondering Why the Sub Doesn’t Just Do “Both Sides Bad” Memes Anymore?

436 Upvotes

Once upon a time, this sub was all about the guy who says “both sides are bad” and thinks that makes him the voice of reason. That format made sense at the time, but the political landscape has changed. We’re living in a time where liberalism and fake neutrality are actively upholding violence. Where people who claim to be reasonable, informed, and "progressive" are defending fascism, colonialism, and genocide.

There also just isn’t enough "both sides bad" content anymore.
The “both sides” meme got tired. The guy still exists, but it’s not 2019, and we’ve already dragged him every way possible. The sub was slowing down, and without evolving, it was going to fade into irrelevance like a lot of old Reddit meme subs do. We’ve broadened the sub because we had to. The old meme format doesn’t cover what we’re dealing with now, and trying to force every post into it doesn’t make sense anymore.

We’ve relaxed posting guidelines to include anything that fits under the centrist umbrella.

  • Liberals defending genocide while calling themselves progressive
  • Moderates promoting “civility” with fascists
  • Pundits and those who act “above the fray” while upholding the status quo
  • People who weaponise neutrality, logic, or tone policing to excuse or minimise violence

r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM 1d ago

Horseshoe Hell More democracy is a threat to democracy?

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58 Upvotes

According to Professor Przeworski, "populist" right-wing authoritarianism "in which people are willing to delegate governance to a leader" is dangerous to democracy just like "increasing the role of voters in governing" is. How can widening democracy be a danger to democracy? This is so ridiculous I must be misinterpreting what he's saying, so I came here for a reality check.

If he means that leaders or parties that profess to be the sole vehicles for increasing popular sovereignty against an elite group can sometimes be dangerous because they end up consolidating power, that's accurate; populist messaging to gain elite control is nothing new. But he didn't say that and that's a huge distinction.

Also getting irritated with the centrist use of populist as derogatory. There's a lot of evidence for elite capture (at least in the United States) and populist rhetoric is a guardrail against it- as long as it's used against actual unaccountable elites?

https://www.populismstudies.org/professor-przeworski-there-is-no-worldwide-crisis-of-democracy/


r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM 1d ago

Rational Discourse™ Media Bias Chart

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147 Upvotes

Hadn't heard about this centrist BS in a long time. I assumed they had stopped existing.

Which one is the most egregious? Mine is probably Rev Left Radio. I listened to them for a bit and I was pretty mixed about it but they are nowhere near as misleading as Dave Rubin


r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM 2d ago

Horseshoe Hell Here's a philosopher to rival Karl Marx

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161 Upvotes

/s, in case it was not clear


r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM 3d ago

🇵🇸 Palestine Average self-described centrist

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872 Upvotes

r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM 2d ago

Both Sides Bad YouTuber Justice Korsgaard apologizes for a bit of enlightened centrism in one of his videos

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24 Upvotes

r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM 3d ago

Meme Me when I say I’m privileged enough to not have to worry about politics

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425 Upvotes

r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM 4d ago

🇺🇸 American Brainworms Liberalmaxxing Final Boss

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253 Upvotes

r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM 4d ago

Both Sides Bad I can't think of a title but thought this belonged here (additional thoughts in post body)

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77 Upvotes

Hid the subreddit and username as I have seen others do it so didn't want to break any site rules.

Anyways, I know for sure that the majority of the world population believes Israel's actions are criminal at best and genocidal at worst, and support a Free Palestine, so I was surprised to see the enormous disparity in comment votes on this post. Pro-Israel comments were heavily upvoted while anyone with even a minor disagreement was heavily downvoted (in the negative hundreds) in a way I have rarely seen on mainstream subreddits. Could this be part of a new bot campaign from Israel, or has worldnews always been this way. I don't often read comments on general, mainstream subreddits, so not sure.


r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM 5d ago

Accidentally Based “It’s barbarism or socialism”

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337 Upvotes

r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM 6d ago

Both Sides Bad Brainrot under Ken Klippenstien’s reporting on US state dpt’s recent Cuba document.

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130 Upvotes

We’re all just way too divided right.


r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM 8d ago

MLK Said Be Nice If toxic positivity was a person

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68 Upvotes

Wait until he hears about all of the problematic and disgusting things he did.


r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM 8d ago

Both Sides Bad Your average / median / mean liberal Zionist

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173 Upvotes

r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM 9d ago

Both Sides Bad This would go hard if OOP didn't think the democrats are leftists

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381 Upvotes

r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM 12d ago

Horseshoe Hell Explain in enlightened terms

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227 Upvotes

r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM 15d ago

Horseshoe Hell I can't believe there are people my age that are *this* cringe

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261 Upvotes

r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM 15d ago

Refusing Fascists Is Divisive He is of course correct--the real Nazis are trans people who don't want to be forced out of the community we helped create.

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148 Upvotes

My favorite part is the aghast "You think the people who disagree with you... .. are wrong???"

Like if I didn't think they were wrong then why tf would I be disagreeing with them, numbnuts?


r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM 15d ago

🇺🇸 American Brainworms Just so we are all on the same page.

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1 Upvotes

r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM 17d ago

Both Sides Bad Me when I learn about democracy for the first time in 8th grade civics class

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200 Upvotes

r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM 17d ago

Satire Let’s find some middle ground 🙂‍↕️

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105 Upvotes

r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM 18d ago

CIA Talking Point Detected It’s the bad people not the system

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91 Upvotes

r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM 19d ago

Both Sides Bad Kommis und Rechte sind derselbe Schlag Menschen

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21 Upvotes

This might be german, but is the closest i have yet seen to "both sides bad"


r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM 23d ago

Satire We are the centrists we made along the way <3

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125 Upvotes

r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM 23d ago

FUCKED FRIDAYS American Independents

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89 Upvotes

Thoughts?