Canadian Politics Today

Centrists really should stop prioritizing respectability above all else.

I used to call myself progressive, and I still have many progressive views, but when progressives started to get crazy about 5 years ago I said "I can't associate myself with some of this ridiculous stuff".  I think it turns reasonable people off.

It really comes down to how far people are willing to push things, which seems a lot these days.  I remember 20 years ago you'd include a female or minority or 2 in a TV show to be more inclusive, and that was good, that's some progress.  Now it's like THE thing people are obsessed with, and everything is identity quotas, and it's not terrible or anything but it's just like "this is kind of annoying because if you don't have X or Y included you're a sexist racist so cancel you". And on the extreme you get something like the batwoman trailer and people want to vomit except for the extremists who cheer: