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Lots of people on the internet nowadays like to use the "both-sides-ism" treatment when addressing controversial and sensitive topics, many like to say they have no part on either party and that they are both the reason why this problem is getting worse because they are both feeding into it. This approach also comes with the internal ego sense that the guy who claims to be a centrist or non-partisan claims to know any better than anyone else on both sides of the spectrum, and to be clear, I am starting to find this approach not only annoying, but because there's a catch to this approach, that it's not always as effective as one would think.

You would scroll down the comments and replies on any political post, observing both the left and the right arguing against one another, and next thing you know you get this one nerd who says "Both sides are the problem!" like if they are some 1000-year-old wizard. I too have tried using this argument in the past, and I did not feel completely satisfied, it felt like I was trying to hide my true thoughts while trying to keep even ground with the one I disagree with, and it does not feel like you are expressing your true emotions on the subject. Especially when it came to this drawing:

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Where there was a small amount of people who instead of taking a right wing approach, decide to play the Enlightened Centrist game, that Both charcaters in the drawing are part of the same growing problem and that the oppressed are no different from the oppressors.

Here's the thing of why this neutrality approach does not make sense, for example we have the LGBTQ community who in recent months have been facing serious challenges that not only take away their rights, but threaten their entire existence, being caused by the Oppressors such as Conservative Far Right and State Republicans who want to pass UnAmerican laws such as the Anti-LGBTQ bills and being forced to abide by the gender you were assigned at birth.

The LGBTQ, being the oppressed group will want to fight like hell and fight any transphobic effort that comes their way. However when the LGBT does fight back, the right wing will take it as a validation of their own prejudices, there is a reason why oppressed groups fight back and cause violence, because they are sick and tired of the system that denies them basic rights and any recognition or opportunity, they're exhausted to live in a society where it's hard for them to thrive and be prosperous, It's happened thousands of times for thousands of different groups like the Roma in Europe, The Irish in Great Britain, and not to forget the African Americans in the United States. For the Oppressor to take their backlash as a validation for their own political biases is deflecting the blame and refusing to take accountability for the suffering THEY have bestowed upon the Oppressed.

And for the "Centrists" (a.k.a secret right-wingers), they blindly take this conflict and frame it as if both the oppressed and the oppressor's actions are equally bad and don't result in real progress, without looking any deeper on spotting the differences of both party's actions.

News Flash, if you claim to be "neural" or "non-partisan" on political issues, or think that both sides are at fault without knowing the reasons WHY they do what they need to do, then you're very much part of the problem.

Because to be morally absent and verbally silent is another man's torture.

Sometimes you cannot be neutral in topics where there is no middle ground, if there's a place where a vulnerable group of people is being intimidated and is fighting back against the force that literally wants them dead, any attempt to seek compromise where there is no social balance would do more harm than good.

There is this meme which I believe helps my point:

And now a few quotes by various figures:

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." - Desmond Tutu

"We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." - Elie Weisel

"Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence." - Louis D. Brandiels

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Lots of people on the internet nowadays like to use the "both-sides-ism" treatment when addressing controversial and sensitive topics, many like to say they have no part on either party and that they are both the reason why this problem is getting worse because they are both feeding into it. This approach also comes with the internal ego sense that the guy who claims to be a centrist or non-partisan claims to know any better than anyone else on both sides of the spectrum, and to be clear, I am starting to find this approach not only annoying, but because there's a catch to this approach, that it's not always as effective as one would think.

You would scroll down the comments and replies on any political post, observing both the left and the right arguing against one another, and next thing you know you get this one nerd who says "Both sides are the problem!" like if they are some 1000-year-old wizard. I too have tried using this argument in the past, and I did not feel completely satisfied, it felt like I was trying to hide my true thoughts while trying to keep even ground with the one I disagree with, and it does not feel like you are expressing your true emotions on the subject. Especially when it came to this drawing:

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Where there was a small amount of people who instead of taking a right wing approach, decide to play the Enlightened Centrist game, that Both charcaters in the drawing are part of the same growing problem and that the oppressed are no different from the oppressors.

Here's the thing of why this neutrality approach does not make sense, for example we have the LGBTQ community who in recent months have been facing serious challenges that not only take away their rights, but threaten their entire existence, being caused by the Oppressors such as Conservative Far Right and State Republicans who want to pass UnAmerican laws such as the Anti-LGBTQ bills and being forced to abide by the gender you were assigned at birth.

The LGBTQ, being the oppressed group will want to fight like hell and fight any transphobic effort that comes their way. However when the LGBT does fight back, the right wing will take it as a validation of their own prejudices, there is a reason why oppressed groups fight back and cause violence, because they are sick and tired of the system that denies them basic rights and any recognition or opportunity, they're exhausted to live in a society where it's hard for them to thrive and be prosperous, It's happened thousands of times for thousands of different groups like the Roma in Europe, The Irish in Great Britain, and not to forget the African Americans in the United States. For the Oppressor to take their backlash as a validation for their own political biases is deflecting the blame and refusing to take accountability for the suffering THEY have bestowed upon the Oppressed.

And for the "Centrists" (a.k.a secret right-wingers), they blindly take this conflict and frame it as if both the oppressed and the oppressor's actions are equally bad and don't result in real progress, without looking any deeper on spotting the differences of both party's actions.

News Flash, if you claim to be "neural" or "non-partisan" on political issues, or think that both sides are at fault without knowing the reasons WHY they do what they need to do, then you're very much part of the problem.

Because to be morally absent and verbally silent is another man's torture.

Sometimes you cannot be neutral in topics where there is no middle ground, if there's a place where a vulnerable group of people is being intimidated and is fighting back against the force that literally wants them dead, any attempt to seek compromise where there is no social balance would do more harm than good.

There is this meme which I believe helps my point:

And now a few quotes by various figures:

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." - Desmond Tutu

"We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." - Elie Weisel

"Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence." - Louis D. Brandiels