From my experience when someone deems themselves above "extremist politics" they're someone who doesn't have to worry every day about the issues affecting those

From my experience when someone deems themselves above "extremist politics" they're someone who doesn't have to worry every day about the issues affecting those they're wagging their finger at. The single word "either" betrays the presumption that one can place themselves "in the center" as a rational "referee" of sorts -- to use your word, this is a "fiction." Looks like this fellow has some more to learn. Human socialization and socially constructed systems of inequality makes it impossible to be impartial about an issue -- everyone is within the issue. For example, the rich can not fully know what livelong poverty is like. Us men can not full know what being female is like in society since birth. And so on...