/checks comments to confirm they’re all arguing over what liberal really means.
Sure, mom, liberals are racists
Submitted 4 months ago by ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Hackworth@lemmy.world 4 months ago
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 months 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 months ago
Liberals typically defend the existence of prisons (and capitalism), which is a behavior that perpetuates racism
Alteon@lemmy.world 4 months 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 months 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 months ago
They’re also fans of porn!
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 4 months 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 months 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 months ago
American liberals sure do love their white savior complex
obre@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Plot twist, OP’s Mom is a Maoist-Third Worldist
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 months 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 months ago
I don’t get it
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Fictional American mom is a Trumper 🎺
saltesc@lemmy.world 4 months 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 months ago
I, too, look across the pond and wonder what the Americans are fucking doing
anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
I’ll save you a trip: proximity does not illuminate it in the slightest.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 4 months ago
Liberalism has always been pro-capitalism.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism
saltesc@lemmy.world 4 months 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.