• lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
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    4 days ago

    liberal is now a word Americans use to mean whoever they dislike

    Americans? NPR, ProPublica, Gallup, Vox didn’t get that memo. Maybe online echo chambers that like dividing the left?

    Reality check.

    articles using liberal as left

    The dictionary

    progressive senses of liberal

    liberal

    adjective

    1. favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
      • Synonyms: progressive
      • Antonyms: reactionary
    2. (often initial capital letter), noting or pertaining to a political party advocating measures of progressive political reform.
    3. free from prejudice or bigotry; tolerant.

      a liberal attitude toward foreigners.

      • Synonyms: unprejudiced, broad-minded
    4. open-minded or tolerant, especially free of or not bound by traditional or conventional ideas, values, etc.
      • Antonyms: intolerant
    5. characterized by generosity and willingness to give in large amounts.

      a liberal donor.

      • Synonyms: lavish, unstinting, munificent, openhanded, charitable, beneficent
    6. given freely or abundantly; generous.

      a liberal donation.

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        3 days ago

        I’ll take NPR, ProPublica, Gallup, Vox, and the way people actually talk around me over online zealots in denial about shit printed right in front of them.

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          I think you haven’t been paying attention if you think those publications are using your definition.

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            2 days ago

            You must have willful illiteracy or strong delusion: liberal is often written in opposition to the right or as synonymous with the left.

            It’s pretty clear with Gallup. On leftward expansion of young women, they express the spectrum of political views from liberal to conservative & from left to right as synonymous. The plot of responses to

            How would you describe your political views – very conservative, conservative, moderate, liberal or very liberal? % Liberal/Very liberal

            shows

            Women aged 18 to 29 today are more liberal than young women in the past on specific issues

            which means

            A Sharp Left Turn in Young Women’s Policy Preferences

            The other articles consistently agree with that language.

            We can see it in common language: when the right gloats about owning the libs, they’re not talking about owning themselves. They’re saying “the libs” are not right, ie, left. American leftists refer to themselves that way, too.

            You’re in serious denial to contradict plain observations smacking you over the head everyday. With that kind of invulnerability to information & inability to update beliefs according to evidence, you might as well be a religious fundamentalist: you think the same. Not a compliment. Work on yourself.