Daniel McGowan. Photo: Cale Layton.
When you talk about extremism, you are, by default, saying that the center is the correct position. But the center is the status quo, right? The center is COVID, homelessness, climate crisis, government inaction, people in prison. Their frame allows us to make the right and left equivalent. I asked this BBC journalist, “Do you think we’re the leftwing version of Nazis?” And she was: “Absolutely not!” I said, “But you’re talking about us like we are.”