• Tinidril@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    Is it though? In the common consciousness? I really don’t think it is. Whether or should be is a different discussion, but the bubble in which those concepts are innately connected is pretty small. You can’t just say “liberal” today and expect it to be understood in that way.

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      1 year ago

      Is it though?

      Yes, it is responsible for those things, like when we say smoking is associated with higher risk of lung cancer.

      In the common consciousness?

      Moving the goalposts. Good job observing that liberal propaganda takes credit for good things and not for bad things.

      Though outside of America, you get a much more accurate view of the term because liberal means “sniveling, centrist, market-fetishist” in most other countries.