• The Snark Urge
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    54 months ago

    Radical has a customary meaning in this context - someone calling for systemic change

    • @Soggy@lemmy.world
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      34 months ago

      That is a better way of putting it, thanks. Not just outside the status quo but pushing to change it. I still think it carries a milder connotation than neo-Nazis or Anarchists and different language should be used for the fringe than just further-than-mainstream politics.

      • The Snark Urge
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        34 months ago

        I don’t know many honest people for whom the current system is working great, so I’d warrant that not being some kind of radical might be the more extreme position

        • @Soggy@lemmy.world
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          24 months ago

          You wouldn’t be the first to float some form of “centrism is an extreme position” and I can’t say I disagree.