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  • stinky@redlemmy.comtoSocialism@lemmy.mlLiberals be like
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    6 days ago

    Here are the definitions I’m using:

    Dunn, John (1993), Western Political Theory in the Face of the Future, Cambridge University Press:

    political rationalism, hostility to autocracy, cultural distaste for conservatism and for tradition in general, tolerance, and … individualism

    Iain McLean and Alistair McMillan (2009), Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics:

    liberalism In general, the belief that it is the aim of politics to preserve individual rights and to maximize freedom of choice.

    Where are you getting your definitions from? I feel like you’re just making them up.



  • stinky@redlemmy.comtoSocialism@lemmy.mlLiberals be like
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    7 days ago

    you meant “figuratively” here, surely. Nothing that I wrote could reasonably be understood to mean “liberalism isn’t liberalism”. I’m not sure where you got that from, I’m afraid, and it’s not my duty to help you achieve comprehension. Maybe you could reach out to your educational institution.



  • stinky@redlemmy.comtoSocialism@lemmy.mlLiberals be like
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    7 days ago

    It doesn’t matter whether there is something worse out there or not.

    What gibberish is this? You’ve introduced wildly subjective metrics “better” and “worse” into a discussion about saving ourselves from exploitation, and then dared to suggest that ideology should be judged on its own terms ? Is this parody?