according to @Custoslibera’s post
Honestly, let’s be stuck here. I’m tired of repeating myself. There’s nothing to be gained here, you understand what I was trying to say, even if you think my words were wrong, and that’s good enough for me.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not heated, I appreciate that you’ve helped me to understand that I can’t say liberal on the internet because people will misunderstand my intention.
It’s more that you shouldn’t use right wing terms to refer to left wing ideas, it’s generally bad practice to pretend people believe in the opposite of reality.
To be clear, when I did a few university classes on philosophy, the term liberal was used to mean how I was using it. It was not once used to mean anything other than that (except during the first time the concept was introduced to us, when the lecturer said the Australian Liberal Party isn’t liberal).
So for me, liberal is not a right wing term, it is inherently leftist.
It cannot be.
Leftism is not synonymous with forward thinking, nor synonymous with being open minded. Leftism is about worker ownership of the Means of Production.
Liberal, again, is focused on the Enlightenment philosophy Liberalism, which is characterized by espousing individual liberty and private property rights. It focuses on things like being open-minded and forward-thinking, like you’ve said, but you’re misattributing that to leftism.
You’ve also been incorrectly saying Americans miscategorize the term into a right-wing term. It’s the opposite, conservative fascists see liberals, who are still right-wingers, as leftists, due to the Overton Window. Liberals are still right-wing, and still espouse support for Capitalism.
