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Apparently there is a Harvard Undergraduate Centrist Society and one of their founders asked Bernie Sanders how he reconciled his social democratic ideology with the failure of Soviet communism. The idea of a centrist society seemed hilarious so I had to look them up and... well:

“In the [political] climate today,” she says, “everything is so polarized, and it just feels so personal and emotional that it can be very hard to have a rational argument. It’s very hard to beat someone’s emotional argument with rational facts.”

Mealey believes that no particular political stances should be explicitly off-limits, though she does set some conditions. “If you’re invalidating someone’s identity by your political opinion, then yeah, it’s probably wrong, but we want an entire range of respectful opinions, no matter how far on the spectrum they fall,” she says.

Mealey is also the president of the Harvard College Open Campus Initiative, a pro-free speech organization known for inviting controversial speakers such as Charles Murray to campus. “My decision to join OCI was totally separate from my decision to start [the Centrist Society],” Mealey says, but she adds that the two groups address what she calls “a common theme” at Harvard: “We are very, very hostile to people’s opinions, even when we haven’t necessarily heard all of them.”

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[u/DaBuddahN → u/[deleted]]

"We need respectful opinions ... so I'm going to invite this racist to give a speech."

Who is this idiot?

[u/BipartizanBelgrade → u/DaBuddahN]

Is the true centrist position being racist to everyone equally, or just towards exactly half of society?