I just tried searching for “liberals” on twitter and tagging usage. Rough proportions I found:
“Liberal” =
Generic godless non-conservative: 35%
SJW/identitarian: 25%
Progressive/socialist welfare statist: 20%
Big-banks-globalist neoliberal: 15%
Classical liberal/Whig: 5%
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a) Someone should do this with a large corpus and a rigorous tagging methodology.
b) The term is now officially a dumpster fire of wildly incompatible intensions
c) This is no longer a fussy academic confusion, it’s a mass, vernacular confusion. It’s a term of rude art.
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I wonder just how much this particular confusion adds to General dumpster fire state of political discourse.
It’s like people having different beliefs about whether you drive on the left or right. Even with no road rage or bad driving there’s going to be high accident rate.
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going to bed tonight angry about the ill-treatment of words
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Amusingly, most folks that hate "liberals" usually do, despite a most of them actually also being identified by others as liberals
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promoting an entrenched two party political system of false dichotomy to own the libs





