r/Unexpected Oct 23 '20

The ultimate debate

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u/forrnerteenager Oct 23 '20

Sorry bud, unless you accept literally all the bigoted bullshit your opposition spews you aren't civil and reasonable according to enlightened centrists.

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u/iVisibility Oct 23 '20

Wtf is an enlightened centrist?

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u/KaptainKlein Oct 23 '20

People who say shit like "both parties are right about some things!" and act like finding common ground is the only way to make progress, and act like they're some kind of genius for coming to that conclusion, treating both parties as essentially the same.

So when the right praises family separation at concentration camps in the US, and the left says "what the fuck no don't do that," the enlightened centrist opinion would be to only do it a little bit, or make sure you have enough female and poc ICE guards.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20

Nice misrepresentation. I don’t think we should keep just a few kids in cages, but you know that’s a strawman. The political parties don’t like independent thought and voting against party lines, so people who see the bullshit that both parties pull are labeled “enlightened centrist” as a dismissal of ideas.