1) I wish folks who describe themselves as "classical liberals" would sketch out any real distinction with "21st century American conservatives" 2) Even accepting the premise, the person who gets so mad at being labeled "alt-right" that they become a racist was already a racist.https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/995007152468250626 …
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Pretty weird for a bunch of techno-futurist utopians to attach themselves to the political philosophy of a laughing stock techno-cynic like Thomas Malthus.
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I see! I was confused by Bouie's ref to "origins" but now I see why, since classical liberals were, after all, at the origin! Tho I think it matters less that we point to specific racist ppl (since there were racists all over) & focus more on the racism implicated in the views.
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I think that was the substance of my response to you, which I guess I only saw through a glass darkly at the time.
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My understand is that some are calling themselves "classical liberals" (rather than just "liberals") to separate & distance themselves from progressives, socialists, and other leftists (who they consider illiberal) who (they feel) are (inaccurately) self-identifying as "liberals"
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A little under a decade ago, there were many who self-identified as libertarians who wanted to "take back" the label "liberal" from those leftists, in the U.S. and Canada, who they felt were (illiberal and thus) inaccurately self-identifying as "liberal".
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