This video is a clear-eyed, historically grounded meditation on how moments of political theater became templates for a broader centrist habit of disciplining dissent rather than confronting power. I move from the 1990s to the present to show how moral condemnation, when selectively deployed, has often served to reassure anxious majorities while leaving structural violence intact, and how that logic echoes in today’s debates over immigration, policing, and political “extremism.” The through-line is narrative: how America repeatedly chooses stability, tone policing, and symbolic order over an uncomfortable truth, even when the consequences grow more dangerous. It’s part history lesson, part warning flare, and part invitation to stop mistaking rhetorical balance for justice.
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White Centrism in a Time of Armed Power
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