Because I don't see conservatism, nationalism or religion as necessarily in opposition to liberalism.
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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