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Thanks for the additional context. > None of the things you mentioned are incompatible with the group Americans call “liberal”. Disagree. In some contexts lef

Thanks for the additional context. > None of the things you mentioned are incompatible with the group Americans call “liberal”. Disagree. In some contexts leftist and liberal are distinct and incompatible things. In American politics, liberal often means 'progressive', but 'classical liberal' is typically associated with libertarianism. That's not to say a classical liberal cannot hold progressive beliefs, but it certainly does not imply they hold progressive beliefs.

anchpop 6y ago
I'm not sure why you keep bringing up "leftist", perhaps a parent comment was edited but it looks like you're the only one who has used that term to describe Destiny here and the original characterization of him as an anti-racist liberal is 100% accurate by both the American and polysci usage of the term.
- Pfhreak 6y ago
  Because I think it's important to clarify -- many people in America use the term "liberals" to mean politically left. I wanted to clarify the poster's usage, did they mean this person was a classical liberal? A colloquial American liberal? The favorite-specter-of-the-Right liberal?