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submitted 10 months ago by lars@lemmy.sdf.org to c/196

according to @Custoslibera’s post

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[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 1 points 10 months ago

You're wrong about that.

No I'm not. Google could've told you that.

[-] Zozano@lemy.lol 1 points 10 months ago

I did google it (well, duckduckgo) and the definition is the one I've been posting. By the primary definition, liberal does mean progressive in every way.

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I've got a news flash for you, bud: dictionary definitions don't tell you everything.

Here is the first DuckDuckGo result for "liberal vs leftist"

Please read it and get back to me

[-] Zozano@lemy.lol 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This discusses the political liberal parties in a US/british context.

The liberal parties do not hold the beliefs as defined below.

Which of these are not leftist ideals?

  • Favoring reform
  • Open to new ideas
  • Tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others
  • Not bound by traditional thinking
[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 2 points 10 months ago

What you are describing is progressivism, which is a rather broad umbrella encompassing both leftism and liberalism. Since it's apparently my job to explain this to you, leftists think the rich should pay their fair share whereas liberals are pretty fond of billionaires all things considered.

Here's the second DDG result for the same query. I find it answers the question much more satisfactorily

[-] Zozano@lemy.lol 1 points 10 months ago

What I'm describing is liberal ideology, as it is what the definition of liberal is when you look it up.

This is my last post responding to the definition of what liberal is, I don't care any more.

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