Comment on Can someone define "liberal" (in its use as an insult) for me?

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1rre@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Liberalism is just letting people do what they want so long as it doesn’t interfere with letting people doing what they want

Support gay marriage? That’s liberal Support corporations paying people 30¢ per hour? That’s liberal
Support people having access to HRT? That’s liberal
Support people owning guns? That’s liberal
Support unrestricted immigration and trade? That’s liberal

The problem is it doesn’t fit in with the US definition of “left” and “right” - it’s economically far right but socially far left, and most Americans just cannot understand that

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