• Doc Avid Mornington@midwest.social
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    11 months ago

    It’s a bit more nuanced than that. Liberalism isn’t the opposite of conservatism. When monarchy was the norm, liberalism was an extremely progressive, revolutionary philosophy. Today, with liberal democracies being the norm, liberalism is essentially conservative. That’s not, in itself, a bad thing - I want to conserve the core ideals of liberalism myself, and we can have an anticapitalist, progressive form of liberalism, that keeps what’s most important, the real heart of liberalism - individual liberty, equality under law, consent of the governed - while also moving ahead to end warfare and establish pro-social economics. However, we can also have a liberalism that protects generational wealth and funds the war machine. It’s far past time for people to decide whether liberalism, alone, is enough.

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      11 months ago

      Alright. Your definitions are fine, correct even. But…

      In American press, liberal means left. Full stop. You’re a socialist? American press will call you “extremely liberal”. American readers will understand that.

      I get that your would like to use the definition of the word that has global application. Doesn’t matter. In the us, liberal means left.

      This article is about left leaning orgs donating to conservative causes and the comments are worrying what liberal means.

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        11 months ago

        Hopefully we are able to entertain several different ideas in our minds at once. You make a valid point, but I think the comment above you is spot on as well and in fact I welcome it as being a little more well thought out than the cheap and superficial sloganeering that’s so typical on Lemmy.

      • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works
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        In right wing American press, liberal means left. In left wing American press liberal means centrist.

        The problem is that the right wing press has a monopoly in the states, and that’s most of what you see here.

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        11 months ago

        Liberals are not necessarily leftists. In the US they seem to express right-leaning opinions and policy pretty frequently.

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        11 months ago

        I too ignore the definitions of words whenever corporate media tells me something different! It’s never failed me before!

        “Mission accomplished”, I always say (when I’ve just started something!

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      The article is claiming that an organization that is donating to conservatives is liberal.

      Why do they claim this organization is liberal?

      According to the article:

      “Of the five groups, two stand out for their prominent histories of supporting liberal causes—the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Omidyar Network Foundation.”

      It’s because this organization donated to a couple charities.

      How does that make them liberal? Answer: it doesn’t

      So why is this article making that claim? What motives could they have to do that?