Why does left wing advocates hate centrists? - eviltoast

I just noticed that one of the news communities here discourage the use of least biased/centrist news sources and I saw some people who put that they hate centrists in their bios.

All is that is kind of weird to me and does not make sense, as I thought that all sides should encourage ideas from centrists and least biased sources.

Is there is something that I miss here?

  • Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    You understand what a centrist is, however the meta perception in online America is that a centrist is a right-winger in disguise.

    News has determined decades ago that they get more attention by being entertaining. Dry factual news and clearly delineated opinion pieces don’t get the views/clicks, and by extension money, so it is unsustainable. It still exists, but it isn’t prevalent.