• SCB@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    While I totally agree that liberals are not leftists. Liberals in the US are on the left.

    I don’t really expect you to learn this, as a self-identifying leftist, because your priors are everything to you, but it is true.

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      1 year ago

      Liberals in the US are on the left.

      So the original post was talking world wide. Limiting the scope to a very right wing portion of the world doesn’t magically change who’s on the Left.

      If you have a room full of people saying “Let’s form a dictatorship and conquer the world!” and 1 person says “I don’t think that’s a good idea”, that person is not automatically “on the left” just because they are to the left of extremist right wing views.

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      1 year ago

      Being left of the far-right does not make one a leftist. Words have meanings.

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        1 year ago

        I would never claim liberals are leftists. Leftists are liberals who failed math

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          Curious how you came to that conclusion. When I was in the math department in college, most of the smartest students were full-blown communists. Though I’m not sure how you think math factors into it in the first place

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            1 year ago

            Lots of undergrads believe lots of silly shit. My buddy was a conservative til he got his masters in Econ. People grow.

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              You’re the one who implied leftism conflicts with mathematical understanding, which you still haven’t justified with any actual reasoning.

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      1 year ago

      Liberalism is the ideology of capitalism.

      Leftist politics reject capitalism.

      Liberalism is only left compared to conservatism, but both are on the right wing.