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Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Ep 97 | 'FILTHY CENTRIST SCUM': r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM

Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Lauren Chen

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we take a look at the subreddit r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM, a hub for far-left activity and calling everyone Nazis. Quip starts at just $25 and you'll get your first refill FREE at GETQUIP.com/CHEN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome back to the show.

0:07.0

Today we're going to be talking about filthy centrist scum.

0:13.0

You know, I enjoy going on Reddit.

0:14.9

It's a pretty fun place.

0:16.0

There are cute animal photos, memes, plus there are stories on there that I can talk about

0:20.5

on the show.

0:21.1

But as anyone who has spent any amount of time on there will

0:24.2

know, although it might vary a bit from subreddit to subreddit, overall,

0:28.2

Reddit is a pretty dang left-leaning place. And hey, there's nothing wrong

0:32.4

with Reddit being a left-leaning place. And hey, there's nothing wrong with Reddit being a left-leaning place. It's just that, as a result of that, one sub-readits

0:37.2

post that I often see trending is R-slash enlightened centrism.

0:40.9

R-slash-enlightencentrism describes its goal as being to point out the hypocrisy of the

0:46.4

centrist types who often align with, sometimes extreme, right-wing views.

0:51.2

Now from that alone, I think you get a pretty good idea of the type of people

0:54.7

and posts we're going to be dealing with but essentially yes our slash enlightened centrism is a left-wing

1:00.4

subreddit dedicated to crapping all over centrist and when I say left-wing sub-wreathed it dedicated to crapping all over centrist.

1:03.8

And when I say left-wing, I don't just mean liberal.

1:06.7

I mean the type of lefties who are so left-leaning, they actually make fun of

1:10.1

liberals for being too conservative. That's what we're looking at today, but before we get into that,

1:15.4

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