/checks comments to confirm they’re all arguing over what liberal really means.
Sure, mom, liberals are racists
Submitted 4 weeks ago by ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Hackworth@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
We could stop doing it if there weren’t mother fuckers getting their definitions from the average American. The kind of person that elected Trump twice.
TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Liberals typically defend the existence of prisons (and capitalism), which is a behavior that perpetuates racism
Alteon@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I can’t think of a single month day liberal that would…but alright.
I mean if you went out and interviewed a “liberal” I’d bet money that they would be against the prison Industrial complex and against rampant unregulated capitalism.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This is a simple misunderstanding caused by the difference between what the word actually means and what propaganda has made it
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
They’re also fans of porn!
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 4 weeks ago
I think many people are racist, both liberals and conservatives. Liberals just manifest their racism differently. That’s rhe unfortunate truth.
Jamablaya@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
I’ve seen that so many times. Worthless platitudes from people that exclusively hang out with other fairly well do to white liberals of certain political opinions, absolutely horrified to see me hanging out and partying with treaty natives, despite all their rhetoric about “acknowledging stolen land” and multiculturalism horseshit.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
American liberals sure do love their white savior complex
obre@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Plot twist, OP’s Mom is a Maoist-Third Worldist
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The emphasis is supposed to be placed on “liberals,” as in, “Pshhht…wait until you see the racism I can do, mom.”
HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I don’t get it
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Fictional American mom is a Trumper 🎺
saltesc@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s quite clear to me that almost no one in the US—or those “educated” by US politics on social media—has any fucking idea what a “liberal” fundamentally is and always has been. It’s going to become another one of those great terms ruined by a takeover of idiots—not that I’m directly calling your mom an idiot.
But ffs, when the French gifted that statue, it wasn’t because they were pro-capitalism, burning books, fucking off women’s rights, and bringing the legal system into every facet of society.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I, too, look across the pond and wonder what the Americans are fucking doing
anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
I’ll save you a trip: proximity does not illuminate it in the slightest.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 4 weeks ago
Liberalism has always been pro-capitalism.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism
saltesc@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Always? The “classical” in your article does not mean what you think it does. Just like post-modernism doesn’t mean “the future”. Capitalism didn’t even exist in the era it’s referencing, rightfully referring to laissez faire instead—something capitalism would eventually arise from.
One of the strongest criticisms of capitalism by liberals is its failure to achieve a moral and equitable distribution of resources. The violation of social freedoms for sake of a market’s freedom. Markets obv play a vital role in driving economic growth but persistent issues such as corruption and institutional weaknesses prevent social justice.
Even Adam Smith criticised laissez faire in the end because, surprise surprise, it was yet another great idea on paper that was incompatanle with human nature. The result is the freedom of some encroaching on the freedom of others; i.e. fundamentally anti liberal.
A liberal will support freedom in a market but never support the exploitation or inequality of individual freedoms, such as the outcomes of pure capitalism. Someone that claims to be a liberal while their ideals strip people’s liberties is a fucking wolf in sheep’s clothing.