• Soggy@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      “Radical” just means “outside the status quo”. “Extremist” is more the term you want there.

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          8 months ago

          That is a better way of putting it, thanks. Not just outside the status quo but pushing to change it. I still think it carries a milder connotation than neo-Nazis or Anarchists and different language should be used for the fringe than just further-than-mainstream politics.

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            8 months ago

            I don’t know many honest people for whom the current system is working great, so I’d warrant that not being some kind of radical might be the more extreme position

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        8 months ago

        if we’re talking extremists we’re talking our boy the unambomber, and uh, the people that bombed abortion clinics, maybe.

        I dont actually have a good second handle for extremists on the right lol. I guess hate criming nazis? That kind of shit.