• krolden@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      ‘liberals’ isnt ambiguous slang. equating ‘the left’ with liberals is just being stupid.

      • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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        1 year ago

        ‘liberals’ isnt ambiguous slang

        Without a qualifier, I find it’s used in a negative way to ”fill in the blank" with whatever an OC’s target demographic is IMO… generally any hopes of having a rational conversation with OC may as well be be flushed down the toilet after observing that kind of usage

        As a sidenote, in a political context I don’t think it captures someone’s alignment in a universally understandable way. Different people with different perspectives interpret the literal phrasing “liberals” from their own POV.

        equating ‘the left’ with liberals is just being stupid.

        I agree.