They’re just defending the status quo, while nominally supporting The Current Thing TM to look cool on social media.
Somewhat relevant: https://redsails.org/why-cant-we-be-friends/
Also: https://redsails.org/the-pitfalls-of-liberalism/
The most perturbing question for the liberal is the question of violence. The liberal’s initial reaction to violence is to try to convince the oppressed that violence is an incorrect tactic, that violence will not work, that violence never accomplishes anything.
The liberal is so preoccupied with stopping confrontation that he usually finds himself defending and calling for law and order, the law and order of the oppressor. Confrontation would disrupt the smooth functioning of the society and so the politics of the liberal leads him into a position where he finds himself politically aligned with the oppressor rather than with the oppressed.
The reason the liberal seeks to stop confrontation — and this is the second pitfall of liberalism — is that his role, regardless of what he says, is really to maintain the status quo, rather than to change it.
It’s the exact same play as when they pearl-clutch about Russia or China. That “neither Washington nor Beijing” shit when they have nothing but silence and cartoon crickets for the fuckery that Washington pulls. It’s all just a diversion so they can be crackerish about the Palestinian joint coalition.
They know their position is wrong, so they compensate by pretending their opponent’s position is more wrong. That way, they still get to be morally superior while still being completely morally bankrupt.
I don’t think they are “scheming” anything, scheming require to have some political orientation. For most of them, quoting Terry Pratchett, “they just want tomorrow to be identical as today”.
Bothsiding conflicts is the line of least resistance and least mental effort, think about some arguments you would present to discuss with the centrist and imagine (or just go to any social media to see) the most perfunctory, brain terminating cliche answer to those - this is centrism, they in fact don’t want to discuss this at all, if they engage, it is only because they see someone engage and feel uncomfortable seeing it so they try to shut that person up so that all is looking nice again and their jimmies remain unrustled.
this. liberals, centrists, they want things to remain as they are, and willingly deny that things are already bad.
Immobilism/conservatism is a political opinion
because they are very wise, remember the solution to all problems is in the middle of the opposing views. if a slaver likes to own people and work them to death and a slave would rather not that the clearly the solution is a bit less slavery slaves should be worked only half way to death, similarly here Palestinians want to live israhell wants them dead so clearly Palestinians dying slower and thru more obfuscated mean is the solution.
