agreed, tho in current (let's say specifically globalnorth/'western' milieux bc that's the context for this discourse)... to call oneself center/moderate *as an actively online person* without specifying which rw ideas you're open to= generally, reads as an admission that you're open to their worst.

I don’t disagree, what I’m saying is that the retreat to “centrist” here is IMO a motte-and-bailey tactic to try to paint the latter as morally equivalent to the former.