Centrism explained using a spoon

Online discourse is full of terrible defences of oppression and bigotry. Often however, what tends to be even more frustrating than those is the position that one should be “balanced” and equidistant from both “extremes”. And the centrists who advocate this often tend to be entirely oblivious to existing power structures and the lack of balance in the political discourse.

Here then, is a simple way to explain why adamantly remaining in the middle may not be as prudent a strategy as some think if the goal is achieving balanced.

In a discourse where the Right Wing narrative occupies most of the space (because it controls the media, jails dissident voices, and spreads misinformation as a matter of strategy), saying “both sides” should be equally criticised is clueless at best and dastardly at worst.