By my understanding, radical left for Americans and also slightly less so but also Canadians is kinda center right for the rest of the world. I’ve also heard people start calling politicians radical when they bait and switch even though that’s not really how that word works.
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.
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
i was thinking explicit actions, more so than vague terms, kind of defeats the whole point of describing “radical right/left wing” if we simply go back to using another vague term doesnt it?
By my understanding, radical left for Americans and also slightly less so but also Canadians is kinda center right for the rest of the world. I’ve also heard people start calling politicians radical when they bait and switch even though that’s not really how that word works.
radical right/far right, is pushing neo nazi territory. Radical left/far left, is people who like socialism and communism.
“Radical” just means “outside the status quo”. “Extremist” is more the term you want there.
Radical has a customary meaning in this context - someone calling for systemic change
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.
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
You wouldn’t be the first to float some form of “centrism is an extreme position” and I can’t say I disagree.
if we’re talking extremists we’re talking our boy the unambomber, and uh, the people that bombed abortion clinics, maybe.
I dont actually have a good second handle for extremists on the right lol. I guess hate criming nazis? That kind of shit.
“Terrorist” works fine.
i was thinking explicit actions, more so than vague terms, kind of defeats the whole point of describing “radical right/left wing” if we simply go back to using another vague term doesnt it?