Milton & Locke thought Catholics didn't deserve free speech. Mill thought "immature" (i.e. non whites & working class) didn't deserve free speech. So this is completely wrong on classical liberal position.https://twitter.com/JonathanMerritt/status/962446842062663681 …
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Uh, so free speech shouldn't apply to conservatives and we should abandon the principles of liberalism? What exactly is your point?
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It’s just a buzz phrase used to attack and discredit current day liberals.
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I think it comes from Sargon of Akkad he's a fairly popular youtuber with some odd ideas.
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Which one had the treatise Religious Freedom Is Great, Atheists Can't Be Trusted?
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Nothing happened more than 20 years ago, right?
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You can make the case that there is something called "classical liberalism" which takes the idea of a limited government to protect property (Locke) and combines it the a defense of liberty (Mill) but usually adds rights to the equation (Locke, again).
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It's a bit disingenuous to say X particular classical liberal wasn't consistent about Y therefore the the classical liberal position on Y is illiberal.
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No, my position is people are concocting a fake tradition based on what they think classical liberals should have believed, rather than what they in fact did believe.
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taking a political philosophy class and read a line from Locke where he repeatedly emphasizes /harmless/ religious belief must be tolerated, and then explicitly discounts Catholicism. it was wild
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Americans who call themselves "liberals," and "conservatives," and "socialists," frequently don't know what the fuck they are talking about.
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