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Jesus Christ, the sarcasm is thick. You even used the word "wrongthink". It's not a conspiracy or anything like you're describing, it's that moderate politics is often just... wrong. Believe it or not, there's sometimes a right answer, and a wrong answer. And if you go "in the middle" you end up being wrong. I mean, take a small gander a history. There's usually a right answer... and a wrong one. Typically, in the mo…

I don't think anyone thought the 3/5s compromise was morally correct, people either didn't care or were willing to live with it in pursuit of another goal. Also, as you said: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation there's a name for it!

> I don't think anyone thought the 3/5s compromise was morally correct

I disagree, they absolutely thought it was morally correct because morals progress throughout history.

What I think people miss is that slavers were evil people doing evil things. No, they were normal people doing normal things. And that's much more scary.

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Yes it definitely supports those things. It will give platforms to those campaigning for those things. It is a newspaper so its job is to report but not necessarily campaign. But look at the subheadings on the Opion page to see what opinons it pushes.

citation needed

Just read it

Re: Kite News

#153

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Exactly, I'm with you. People who claim to "advocate for moderation" or for "depolarization" are always enemy agents or AI bots who get paid a salary from the enemy to try to weaken us. We must stand firm in our psychological self defence, and only listen to verified and trusted sources and people. We have to diligently prune our friend groups and family from those who have been infected with wrongthink and started w…

The point I'm making, which you are either unable or unwilling to grasp, is that being moderate is not the same thing as being correct . Sometimes the right position is an extreme one. Fighting hitler is a pretty easy example. There's a particularly annoying form of cowardice that involves refusing to take a position and then pretending this is some kind of moral high ground.

Who has argued that taking the middle position is correct? Taking in information from differing sources is on the other hand correct, because then you can make an informed decision on your own position.

Believing that your position or your side's position is always correct and not bothering with other perspectives is the first step to becoming ignorant.

The second step is to believe that everybody who isn't explicitly of the same opinion as you must be some kind of shill or agent or infiltrator is the second step.

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