I deliberately stopped using it in any political context a few years ago when it became clear that the definition of the word had become a moving target that would always be relocated to "whatever the most expedient sneer I need right now is"
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replacement vocab: socially liberal = pluralistic economically liberal = market economics liberal democracy = popular sovereignty, or just democracy (no adjective) liberal (describing a political party) = center-left, centrist, social democrat, etc.
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In activist or radical political milieus "liberal" signifies the opposite of "radical," and is typically taken as synonymous with "reformist" or "bootlicker." Basically it's used to say "naive and confused but would be a fascist if they had a spine" about both Dems and Repubs.
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However it's important to note that both marxists and anarchists believe the other camp are "liberals" and use the term as a slur to describe them, but with different diagnoses of what's wrong with liberalism at core:https://c4ss.org/content/49534
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http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/02/23/in-favor-of-niceness-community-and-civilization/ … is my go-to long form description of what I mean by liberal. In discussion, I usually call it "classically liberal", because I know the definition in my head no longer maps to the common definition (on either side of the fence).
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Ah yeah
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Generally, I use it to mean a group of people who generally take a similar set of positions on popular issues, and who mostly self-identify (and identify) as "liberals." "Bleens" would work just as well, but society seems to have adopted "liberals."
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I generally only use it in contexts where the major meanings (US Dem Party-like politics, neoliberal economics, liberal intl order) happen to both be roughly aligned w/ each other & what I'm trying to express, or at least don't contradict it. If they're not I'll pick another word
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Members of provincial Liberal parties or Liberal Party of Canada, including the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and former Premier of Ontario Kathleen Wynne.
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Things are named by their enemies. “To own the libs” etc
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Never quite understood what that means. Cause an outbreak of apoplectic outrage?
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