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"liberal" is too wide of a brush, basically; most folks are liberal (and also conservative!) and so the label brings in too many folks. Rogan's further to the l
by Kednicma 6y ago
"liberal" is too wide of a brush, basically; most folks are liberal (and also conservative!) and so the label brings in too many folks. Rogan's further to the left than the "liberal" centrist media; if it were not for all of the "signaling" that he does, like being a person who enjoys MMA, then he would be branded as a "socialist" just like his guests Bernie Sanders and Andrew Yang.
Ten words or less to answer the headline: Because mass media is actually quite illiberal.
- dqv 6y agoThe article makes this distinction. There are people who have liberal beliefs and people who are embedded in liberal culture. That liberal culture is directed by the liberal intelligentsia. And I think your suggestion that liberal intelligentsia and the legacy media aren't intertwined is unfounded.
- atomi 6y agoCapitalism requires liberalism. Illiberalism just doesn't make sense when profit is the question. In a capitalist system, we're a liberal society because we _have to_ be. Don't take my word for it, read some John Locke - the Father of Liberalism.