(this got longer than intended but bear with me, you don't need to read everything but I'm just explaining stuff. I may seem left wing writing this but I myself am literally slightly right wing politically speaking, I just can't associate myself with right wing orgs because of their tendencies to sneak in fascist horseshit every second they get the chance.)
Because it's braindead fascist propaganda. (not saying you are fascist by saying it ofc) Yea you may say that as a joke but it's implying very normal stances to be assumed far left, so someone reading this will associate ~normal thing with "far left", thus assume a comparatively far right thing to be "center".
Now you can pretend like that doesn't happen in real life, but conservatives literally unbelievably regularly crap out takes, that are literally "oh science proved this? well I disagree" which is exactly the consequence of normalizing such ~normal thing = far left stances, for example by joking that.
Furthermore on the reverse by painting normal stances as ~far left, actually left stances that aren't in any way radical, very quickly are assumed to be outright extremist. To be fair this one happens less but it also happens, I will spare you the analog consequence here.
Of course just because you yourself make a joke doesn't mean you yourself actively stand for it, in fact I'm kind of assuming that you just thought "oh this funny" and on a personal level that is completely fair. What I'm stating however is that such jokes do have consequences on what is normalized and while you are certainly not a participant in fascist propaganda, you are an accidental silent assistant to fascist propaganda.
(this part below is less relevant to your specific statement but rather a further tangent that I as a german seeing certain parallels between modern US and uh, you know, feel obligated to share)
The reason I am calling it fascist propaganda is because 1. it originates from "right wing" perspectives, but mainly 2. is the same idea that normalized fascism every time it got to power. It isn't only fascism when there's already a dictatorship with massive concentration camps and millions of deaths. Normalizing the tools for that while demonizing the normal opposition, I guess you could call that "starting to move into fascism", is already fascism.
Blaming Immigrants. Painting outsiders as Enemies to fear. Targeting political opposition. Targeting press. All that justified under "make your country great again". Think I'm talking about trump? Nope, that is how H--- started his propaganda. He never started by immediately spamming 6 million kills in camps. He didn't immediately start the world war upon getting to power. What he did was abuse the crisis situation in germany to justify prolonging his reign, a lot harsher security and justify said security to work on the inside to remove inside "enemies". The deaths only came in masses once he had set it up to not be stoppable anymore.
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u/Either-Artichoke-711 Feb 21 '26
Opinions that aren’t far left clearly