The only thing that centrists really stand for is decorum. Anything is permissible as long as it is done legally in “norm-respecting” ways within the framework of liberal democracy.
So when a centrist is rude to you, they are telegraphing the fact that they don’t see you as human. Humans deserve decorum, in fact it’s all they deserve in the establishment centrist view, so you can infer that a rude centrist has decided you are no longer human.
So frankly if I ever blow up at you on Lemmy, this is probably why, because I have less than zero patience for rudeness from people whose literally only virtue is decorum. If you treat me like a person, then we can get along. Posting this so I have something to link to next time if happens 😆
Edit: I tell people politely but explicitly when they’re being rude and give them a chance to correct their course…but if they double down on being rude, then I gotta quintuple down on being exponentially more rude because that’s the only language they’ll listen to.
Furthermore, this also doesn’t apply if you have literally any more principles than maintaining decorum.
I can agree with them putting decorum above many very important things, but someone being rude is very far away from telegraphing their views of your humanity…
Sometimes people really deserve to be called out, too.
But merely being rude is not the only piece of information being used in that calculation. And it’s not just the literal label “I’m a centrist” either. It’s the recent totality of actions, dialogue, and beliefs of whoever I’m talking to, i.e. recent post history. People whose only value is decorum can be easily spotted, and then I believe that my inference applies.
Ehhhh… It’s still a very big jump to conclusion. You haven’t laid out any criteria beyond ‘centrist’ and ‘rude’, so I cannot really comment further. I don’t even dig through my own comment reply’s history most of the time, so I’m definitely not digging through someone else’s, especially with such a nebulous criteria as “rude”.
If you don’t want to see so many judgmental people around, you should probably start with not being hyper-judgmental yourself.