Liberals are center right to center left depending on the degree. Liberals are not conservatives. You are confusing left and right, which is more defined. Liberals are not routinely labeled as authoritarian. Authoritarianism can happen in any political direction but routinely not associated which current western liberalism.
The term varies by location. Left and right is usually more standardized. Also liberals by any definition are usually not regarded as authoritarian. Full stop.
This keeps coming up in different threads - I hope you’ll receive the following as useful, and not combative. I occasionally get to feeling grumpy and dunky but this isn’t a long subtle road toward that.
You have a somewhat unique and actually beautiful opportunity here (“here” meaning Lemmy in general, and this specific thread) - one that is hard to find elsewhere, at any rate.
There are well-educated people (obvs not everyone) with very different learned and lived POVs from yours, here. And there is an asymmetry that you’re either missing or denying. These folks who you think you might need to educate about western / US flavored liberalism? They have heard what you’re saying, considered those ideas in a broader context than you have, and rejected those interpretations. It isn’t some missed knowledge you’re sharing like you imagine, or some correction you’re making to someone else’s limited understanding.
You’re missing this, and I really want you to not, for your benefit first, but for all of us - it truly is you, in this case, who has much to learn and little to teach.
Don’t shut that personal growth out by being defensive, it doesn’t lead anywhere. It leads to intellectual death, the ending of internal development, a death sadder than the final one. There’s much to learn and you have a truly golden opportunity to do so, here.
Start with just asking yourself “what if I’m wrong? I’m probably not, that’s the most likely outcome, but what if? What brain doors open when I try to find out?”
[Edit: to put a finer point on this attempt, I can remember enough of how I used to be “you”, hence the unremarked assumptions about you I made throughout. If being “correct” matters, it simply can’t be done with only the info you’re allowing in at the moment. Best wishes.]
Biden deported more than Trump 1, beat the shit out of protesters, committed a genocide and massively expanded the police state. Somehow this is not “authoritarian”.
Liberals are conservatives, they are capitalist authoritarians, you understand that right?
Liberals are center right to center left depending on the degree. Liberals are not conservatives. You are confusing left and right, which is more defined. Liberals are not routinely labeled as authoritarian. Authoritarianism can happen in any political direction but routinely not associated which current western liberalism.
Wrong, liberalism is fundamentally a right wing ideology. Full stop. https://dialecticaldispatches.substack.com/p/the-dialectics-of-domination
It is not. Not is the US https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism_in_the_United_States
The term varies by location. Left and right is usually more standardized. Also liberals by any definition are usually not regarded as authoritarian. Full stop.
This keeps coming up in different threads - I hope you’ll receive the following as useful, and not combative. I occasionally get to feeling grumpy and dunky but this isn’t a long subtle road toward that.
You have a somewhat unique and actually beautiful opportunity here (“here” meaning Lemmy in general, and this specific thread) - one that is hard to find elsewhere, at any rate.
There are well-educated people (obvs not everyone) with very different learned and lived POVs from yours, here. And there is an asymmetry that you’re either missing or denying. These folks who you think you might need to educate about western / US flavored liberalism? They have heard what you’re saying, considered those ideas in a broader context than you have, and rejected those interpretations. It isn’t some missed knowledge you’re sharing like you imagine, or some correction you’re making to someone else’s limited understanding.
You’re missing this, and I really want you to not, for your benefit first, but for all of us - it truly is you, in this case, who has much to learn and little to teach.
Don’t shut that personal growth out by being defensive, it doesn’t lead anywhere. It leads to intellectual death, the ending of internal development, a death sadder than the final one. There’s much to learn and you have a truly golden opportunity to do so, here.
Start with just asking yourself “what if I’m wrong? I’m probably not, that’s the most likely outcome, but what if? What brain doors open when I try to find out?”
[Edit: to put a finer point on this attempt, I can remember enough of how I used to be “you”, hence the unremarked assumptions about you I made throughout. If being “correct” matters, it simply can’t be done with only the info you’re allowing in at the moment. Best wishes.]
Biden deported more than Trump 1, beat the shit out of protesters, committed a genocide and massively expanded the police state. Somehow this is not “authoritarian”.
He also expanded the ICE concentration camps that Obama first put up that Trump has been using.
But of course thats not fascism or authoritarianism.
Despite two of the primary liberal countries, the US and UK, genociding entire continents.
The liberal political system of bourgeios “democracy” is a much more effective system at genocide than even fascist governments.