On lemmy.world I posted a comment on how liberals use ‘tankie’ as an invective to shut down dialogue and received tons of hateful replies. I tried to respond in a rational way to each. Someone’s said ‘get educated’ I responded ‘Im reading Norman Finkelstein’s I’ll burn that bridge when I get there’ and tried to keep it civil.
They deleted every comment I made and banned me. Proving my point, they just want to shut down dialogue. Freedom of speech doesn’t existing in those ‘totalitarian’ countries right? But in our ‘enlightened’ western countries we just delete you.
That’s not really true. Self identified liberals in America don’t really put much thought into it beyond what you stated. Everyone starts somewhere and that’s fine.
Once you start understanding political ideology, liberalism becomes less of a catch all than just “not-conservative”.
Check out a great example of Phil Ochs lampooning the liberals of his time. This isn’t a new definition.