• DudleyMason@lemmy.ml
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        14 hours ago

        No, but there are confused Westerners who only understand “Liberal” to mean “the more progressive half of my country’s Liberal parties”.

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        14 hours ago

        Liberal in modern western political discourse has little to do with capitalism anymore and more about your stance on social issues like LGBT rights, racial equality or healthcare. Half of lemmy pretends not to understand it for some reason but it’s been like that for a few decades.

        It’s the result of conservatives using “libtard” and “communist” interchangeably for everyone to the left of Reagan while by the old definition they’re actually liberals.

        Languages evolve. Prescriptivism is useless.

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      1 day ago

      I think that as more people lose faith in capitalist reform and are pushed left, there’s potential for semantic drift, which is important to address. So just to clear up any miscommunication, liberalism is everything short of “we gotta get rid of capitalism”. Once you go over that line, you’re not a liberal anymore