I genuinely think a lot of the defensiveness in these comments is actually understandable - people here probably were active online back in the Gamergate era around 2016ish, where “liberals pwned” compilations were popular. I think that people internalized the idea that anti-liberal means anti-progressive.
It was probably partly intentional from the far-right, to secure progressive politics from shifting further left, by making progressives identify with the label “liberal”, even when most of them actually are not.
Fair enough. A lot of people who claim to be liberal or moderate who are decided left is pretty high actually. Even amongst the right I bet a lot would be left but they’ve been led to believe it’s bad.
So many now believe the propaganda that liberalism, especially neo-liberalism, is “left.”
I genuinely think a lot of the defensiveness in these comments is actually understandable - people here probably were active online back in the Gamergate era around 2016ish, where “liberals pwned” compilations were popular. I think that people internalized the idea that anti-liberal means anti-progressive.
It was probably partly intentional from the far-right, to secure progressive politics from shifting further left, by making progressives identify with the label “liberal”, even when most of them actually are not.
Fair enough. A lot of people who claim to be liberal or moderate who are decided left is pretty high actually. Even amongst the right I bet a lot would be left but they’ve been led to believe it’s bad.