If I understand it right, the moderator of the mastodon.world instance has blocked several posts by Hasnain Kazim, as Kazim reported yesterday on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/661473263/posts/10163657720033264/
Kazim is a quite famous and successful book author in Germany and something between left, conservative and liberal. He was journalist for the most important German weekly news magazine Spiegel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasnain_Kazim?wprov=sfla1
Canceling his posts is stupid and certainly completely exaggerated. To me from the external perspective it seems that the moderator is abusing his power. He is damaging free and respectful discussion. Furthermore, when a famous person like Kazim reports those experiences to his broad audience, who do not understand the functioning of the fediverse, the moderator also damages Mastodon in general significantly, it seems to me.
What do you think about this case ?
Maybe I am too dense to get this, but how exactly can you be between left, conservative and liberal? Is that being centrist?
I am often called a centrist... I hold views the left and the right both despise, I agree with one here and the other there. In USA we are officially "independents" and are the majority of voters (40% independents, 30% Democrat ("left"), 30% Republican.
"independents" also include all other political parties (Greens, Libertarians, Socialists, et al), which are more active locally than federally.
To me it implies he doesn't really fit in a political box. But yeah centrist.
american?
One can have many different views on political decisions. We have many models and axies to describe and categorize them, but no model is perfectly describing the complex reality
some Ideas one can have: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_ideologies only few of them are mutually exclusive
What do those words mean? They are far to broad. What does my opinion on Tariffs have to do with my opinion on health care?
Classical liberal (but not liberal) at least has meaning - lets not kill each other even though we are of different religions (and in the last 200 years expanded to: lets not hold slaves and lets allow women to have rights). However because that is so broad there is lots of room for disagreement on details within that category.
Yep. But I'm not sure what Centrism is, exactly.
In America's Overton Window, Centrism typically means Classical Liberalism, while eschewing far-left mindsets like Marxism.
"Centrism" in modern politics is "being too ashamed to admit of being right-wing".
No.
The majority of voters are centrists, if we were just ashamed of being right wing a Democrat could never win office, now could they? You require centrist votes to win any election
(major parties are only 30% of voters each, the other 40% are not secretly right wing)
~11% of American voters are more on the extreme left, another ~11% more on the extreme right-wing, leaving a solid 4/5ths in the middle.
Which is why these terms aren't useful in a global forum like the Fediverse - when USA Democrats are simultaneously both left and also right, depending on the recipient's POV, then the term ceases to convey any (non-ambiguous) meaning.
Or we could use the terms properly in relation to the country of origin... except as the person you replied to shows, people refuse to use that level of consideration that their preferred way is not the only lens through which to view the entire world.
Honestly, spending time on Lemmy has made me less left-leaning than I used to be. All the hate and vitriol and especially disinformation spreading has really turned me away from it all. Especially when I see how it is identical to the right-wing POVs.
Extremists on both sides: death to everyone who holds viewpoints different from my own!!
Saying you have dropped your support for things like fair wages and human rights because I can't bother to learn to distinguish how that's different from the right-wing has made me more right-wing, is not the win you seem to think it is.
"I don't support human rights as strongly as I once did because I don't like how everyone acts on the internet" is a weird take. I've always thought it was.
Not really, that's just something leftists say to lash out because they're mad that liberals aren't progressive.