Moderate

The ire of left wingers and targets of assimilation for the right.

Not to be confused with centrist (who reject all left and right wing theories completely) moderates try to 'meet in the middle' and tout themselves as superior to either extremes, condemning both, particularly the left, as impractical.
The moderate may adopt talking points from either wing but generally tend to err on the side of conservatism, which you may expect given that so much of moderate rhetoric focuses on practicality as opposed to value.

The largest existing criticism of moderate political thought is that it considers the right and left to have equal credibility, even in their most extreme manifestations.

On one end, the furthest extreme of the left calls societal reconstruction; the rightmost for genocide. This is the position that says that the counter-protesters in Charlottesville are just as bad as those chanting 'Jews will not replace us' and went on to murder a woman and injure 14 others by running them down with a car. To present the view that society should serve all the people in it as being equal as all non-whites are inferior is cruel and disingenuous to the extreme.

To call for 'compromise' for the sake of practicality is to say that violence is permissible if it serves to maintain the status quo. That isn't practical, it's lazy.

Usage; Don't bother arguing with him--John's a moderate.

The moderate finds that conceding justice to violence is a necessary evil if society is to be maintained.
The critical realises that no society worth maintaining would permit violence so that it may be upheld.

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Anarchist

Someone who ascribes to anarchism.

Fundamentally believes that an authority that cannot justify itself adequately should be disposed of, capitalism and its associated systems of governance being one of them.

Anarchism is not lawlessness. There are many proposed ways in which a theoretical anarchistic society would function and govern itself, but I couldn't do them justice here; that's what LeftTube's for.

There are a number of schools of anarchist thought, however, all are inherently anti-capitalist. Anarchists tend to be very active in civil, animal and workers' rights movements.

Here are some different anarchist schools with a thinker or figure:

Anarcha-Communism: Peter Kropotkin.

Anarcho-Syndicalism: Noam Chomsky.

Green anarchism: Élisée Reclus

Black Anarchism: Ashanti Alston.

Anarcha-Feminism: Emma Goldman

Queer Anarchism: I'm giving you 2 figures for this one: Adolf Brand and Oscar Wilde.

Anarcha-Passivism: Leo Tolstoy

Squat the World and Bash Back are two current movements lead by anarchists

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Autistic

Descriptive noun form of autism/ASD, a neurodevelopomental disorder that can feature differences in how someone navigates social interactions, and differences on how we experience physical stimuli (also known as Sensory Processing Disorder, or SPD).

Autism isn’t necessarily *characterised* by sensory-regulating behaviours (also called stims), and while body-stims like rocking and flapping are fairly common, they aren’t defining characteristics nor is stimming harmful in any capacity (with minor exceptions). We’re also fairly highly represented among BFRB populations,

We don’t all approach social situations the same way either. some of us are nonverbal, others hyper-verbal; one autistic might seek physical contact while another might be repulsed by it. What we’re okay with can also vary depending on the situation or how we feel, we’re people.
We aren’t any more monolithic than allistic folks; if you want to know if we’re comfortable with something, ask us.

Don’t get offended if Riley doesn’t make eye contact with you, they’re autistic.

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