I disagree with this. Illiberalism is the problem with any social problem. But this could come down to definitions. https://www.wsj.com/articles/theres-no-such-thing-as-an-illiberal-1501874893 …
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I don't think we need to lump every illiberal thing together - literally Hitler - to point out that the root of the problem is illiberalism.
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We should approach far-left illiberalism differently to far-right illiberalism & religiously-motivated illiberalisms individually too.
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Not to mention all the ideological illiberalisms which are neither religious nor straightforwardly left or right.
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I think solution is not to stop pointing out when ideas are illiberal but 2 stop claiming any ideology or political position owns liberalism
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I think Mr Hazony's conservatives who frame their support for human rights as liberalism do so quite consistently with the meaning of term.
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We all know religious liberals exist & I like Jon Haidt's take on liberal nationalists tho I think few ppl fully nationalist or globalistpic.twitter.com/8eoxHc39NU
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The misuse of the term 'liberalism' by people who are, in fact, authoritarian & intolerant of different ideas is certainly a problem.
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But I think the way to address this is to point out that they are being illiberal rather than reject concept of liberal & illiberal views.
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I know that sometimes concepts slide & the right thing to do is give up on them & relabel or just describe the values they once described.
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I was reluctant to abandon 'feminism' & wanted to reclaim it for the aim for gender equality. But I don't think we're there with liberalism.
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In fact, many on the hard-left who were so badly skewing the understanding of it are now rejecting it & lumping liberals with conservatives.
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It makes me happy when the radicals & identitarians explicitly state that they are not liberals.
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But, as I said, a lot of this cld be semantic differences, often national ones. Obviously, I don't think liberalism is defined by America.
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I think an understanding of liberalism as forcing a specific set of 'liberal' values onto everyone is a misunderstanding of it.
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A large part of it is an agreement to let people live by their own values & express them providing they're not harming anyone else.
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