It shouldn't make sense to say that liberals want to impose their values on everyone else. If it does, liberals are liberaling wrong.
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Usually when someone accuses me of wanting to push liberal views on them, they mean I want to stop them imposing conservative ones on others
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Coz my liberal perspective leads me to defend the rights of conservatives to express & live according to very conservative views.
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If I were to genuinely try to impose my views on others, conservativism & religion & large sections of social justice activism wld be banned
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That would be illiberal. Ppl calling themselves liberal but not applying this principle to their own values seem very confused to me.
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I remember a conversation we had once. We can push our liberal values in some way. It's a bit of a paradox. Think speech, abortion etc.
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Replying to @TamaraBrouwer1 @HPluckrose
What you describe, borders on libertarianism, no? I'm always struggling with this part. Though I agree that those that abandon the core
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Yes. Both should have this core defining feature of liberty.
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