"No longer a middle way, centrism has become ossified as an independent body of dogma, every bit as ideologically inflexible as its apparent rivals. Or perhaps "dogma" is the wrong word: what unites the political center, after all, is not so much a commitment to a set of identifiable political beliefs, as to an identifiable aesthetic β a dedication to politicians, or political institutions, who favor a certain neat look, a certain technocratic affect, a certain starry-eyed, Obamaesque rhetorical tone."
"The center has been radicalized β and this means that centrist politicians and social media accounts are becoming an increasingly severe disinformation threat. They might typically retain a sensible tone β but this should by no means assure anyone that they are conveying sensible content."
https://www.logically.ai/articles/the-center-cannot-hold
"The center has been radicalized β and this means that centrist politicians and social media accounts are becoming an increasingly severe disinformation threat. They might typically retain a sensible tone β but this should by no means assure anyone that they are conveying sensible content."
https://www.logically.ai/articles/the-center-cannot-hold
www.logically.ai
The Center Cannot Hold
Tom Whyman discusses the perils of disinformation that lurks behind a sensible, centrist tone.
"On Twitter and Reddit, dozens of students are saying that their teachers are assigning the right-wing content, especially in required history, government, and economics classes. What was reported as a single instance of the videos being assigned as extra credit in an Ohio public-school district last October only scratched the surface of a much bigger phenomenon. According to the students I spoke to, PragerUβs content has been in public schools for years."
https://prospect.org/education/right-curriculum-how-prageru-infiltrates-schools/
https://prospect.org/education/right-curriculum-how-prageru-infiltrates-schools/
The American Prospect
The Right Curriculum? How PragerU Infiltrates Schools.
The right-wing nonprofit, known for viral videos like βThe Left Ruins Everything,β launched a program specifically designed for teachers last fall. But according to students, its content has been in public schools for years.