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Originally Posted by Tom4784

Well, that's a fine load of whiney bull**** with a whole lot of mental gymnastics to paint yourself as a victim and some sort of enlightened thinker when you're nothing of the sort. It's just the same kind of bull**** with all centrists really. It's all about their own self-image and making themselves look good above all else.

As I said in the past, I'd rather just skip the pageantry and get to the point where centrists drop their masks.

If the point needed proving any further, there it is .

I could equally say that tribally-focussed culture warriors are more concerned with image -- not self image, but their image in the eyes of the collective they've chosen to align with, and so they'' (ironically, given the left's current focus on individualism) forego anything resembling original thought in favour of toeing the palatable prescribed rhetoric of their peers.

If I was "just concerned with looking good" I would slap on the blinkers and dogmatically repeat the same social justice rhetoric as everyone else instead of pointing out where I find it inaccurate and think it falls flat. I'm all for people disagreeing with that if they can do it with any sort of backing and not just an angry screech. It highlights the glaring lack of any real viable counter-point. "I know why you're wrong but I can't be bothered to evidence that, bigot!". You'd paint yourself as part of the solution with that stance ... or maybe not, maybe just go with the "Pfft, I am too jaded to concern myself with thoughts of solutions, I'm happy just making the bigots uncomfortable " ... and then accuse OTHERS of self-aggrandising pageantry for trying to have an actual discussion? Really an unfathomable lack of self awareness.