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> Limping every left leaning person into a “liberals” category is demeaning. Honest question: what's the difference between "liberal" and "left-leaning"? I tho
by DoofusOfDeath 7y ago
> Limping every left leaning person into a “liberals” category is demeaning.
Honest question: what's the difference between "liberal" and "left-leaning"? I thought they were basically two different terms for the same concept.
- mikestew 7y agoAnd now you’ve learned that labels are more often used to denigrate than inform. Just talk about the issues, you don’t need to stick people in a box first. I’d answer your honest question, I really would, but there’s not a “hardness scale” type measurement for liberality or conservatism. $DEITY, that would have to make things a little easier, wouldn’t it? “Don’t project on me like I’m an L7. Firmly a 5, thank you very much. Here’s the certificate.”
- jsilence 7y agoEven more confusing for non US people is the fact that the word stem of liberal, libre, literally means free. Freedom loving right wingers harking on liberals does not make any sense seen this way.
- jamil7 7y agoIt's just labels. In my opinion "the left" is a collective term for a large spectrum of different political views, sometimes overlapping, often not. As a non-american "liberal" to me indicates a US centric type of neo centre-left political view.