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[–] ThePac@lemmy.ml 20 points 6 months ago (10 children)

Except "western liberals" are the ones out there protesting the genocide?

What even the fuck is this post?

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Western progressives and leftists are protesting, liberals by definition support current structures and systems to achieve populist goals, but humanitarian causes are not on their radar usually unless it's the most milquetoast issue that everyone can agree on.

As others have said here, the names of things have changed a lot, and this is made more confusing by the fact that a large portion of the population has no idea how this shift has taken place, and conservatives still refer to their hated enemy as "libs" because they're not very bright and names stick. It does throw them for a loop when you say "I'm not a liberal, I'm a leftist/progressive" and it's a good way to remind them how dumb they really are.

[–] InputZero@lemmy.ml 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Can't believe I'm posting in a Palestine thread again but here we go. I think people aren't using the same words in the same way in this thread. In the last decade there has been a shift in how the word liberal is used. Two decades ago there were the neo-liberals, which said they were not big C conservative but were.

To separate themselves from the neo-liberals, liberals started calling themselves leftist. Which meant the neo-liberals as the only "liberals" remaining. So now the word liberal can mean a person on the left, or a person on the right, depending on the intent of the speaker.

So saying that the liberals are turning a blind eye to genocide is true, the speaker probably just means neo-liberals but ommitted the neo. Language is fluid, and confusing

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Language is fluid, and confusing

And sadly, it seems like a lot of people can't get past this part and desperately need solid definitions before they can make any decisions or have any stances. Places like reddit and even this burgeoning platform have shown us all time and time again that people as individuals may have great capability and potential, but as a group, when viewed as a collection, have incredibly hard time understanding basic ideas like "nuance," the ability to view multiple, competing ideas simultaneously, or "context," viewing the larger picture and how it relates to the details.

I've seen it really flare up with the trans issues and gender debates, where people with conservative-minded views act like words were discovered in a fucking meteor crater and there are only a limited number of words which have to have solid, rigid definitions.

[–] InternetPerson@lemmings.world 4 points 6 months ago

where people with conservative-minded views act like words were discovered in a fucking meteor crater

Hahaha, I love that part. :D

[–] geissi@feddit.de 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It should be said that Neo-liberalism is an economic classification.
It has little to do with social liberalism.

[–] cobra89@beehaw.org 4 points 6 months ago

Yes it also doesn't make a person "on the right" as this person is claiming (at least by American standards/definition), it makes them on the right side (almost the middle of the spectrum) of the left side of the spectrum.

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 months ago

No, leftists are protesting the genocide. Liberals aren’t leftists.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

Western Liberals are cheering on their president supporting the Genocide.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Bro those aren't liberals protesting.

you have no fucking clue who or what liberal is.

[–] Mammothmothman@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

Conservative goalposts moving.

im literally in one of the protest encampments in britain right now and the vast majority of people here are anti liberal leftists, there's literally more overt marxists here than there are liberals

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

This. Change the last line to, "U.S. armaments companies need to suck taxpayer money that would have been better spent on the taxpayers, so 'we don't see no genocide.'

Or, "We need to pander to evangelicals, who need Israel to exist so they can have their Book of Revelations, end of the world, apocalyptic jerk-off fantasies."

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This is .ml, they use “liberal” the same way republican fascists use the word “liberal” - a blanket statement to encompass “anyone who either doesn’t agree with or is not extreme enough for me”