It's sad when the center gets attacked just as much as the left and the right. For example, someone argue X which is a right-wing talking point. (Sorry, I can't come up with a concrete example for X right off the top of my head right now so bear with me.) I say that X has some merit. Then another person comes along and equates X with Nazism just because it's a right wing position even though it has nothing even remotely to do with Nazism. And then they say that there is no middle ground with Nazism and uses that to shut down even the centrist position. This smells of an authoritarian attempt to shut down rationality.

Also, another common argument that's made about the center is that Centrists always think taking the middle will make them right more than the right or left-wingers. I speculate that they think that all right wingers align with the right on nearly everything and all left-wingers align with the left on nearly everything so centrists align with the middle on everything.

WRONG

I'm a centrist (ok, probably more center-left) and I can tell you there are some issues that I align with the right on (affirmative action, funding the police, "wokeness", etc.), with the left on (healthcare spending, education spending, abortion, legalizing drugs, etc.), and with the center on (gun control, fighting climate change, covid-related mandates, etc.) There are also areas that I don't agree with either the left or the right on, namely keeping speech as censorship-free as possible.