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It's All Politics
How many people here were once liberals? ✋
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[–]AntarchomachusAnarchist 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun - 2 years ago (4 children)
It's the opposite I think. Until very recently conservatives strongly supported free speech
I'm going to challenge this. Historically it has been the evangelical christian right that has been behind the vast majority of censorship efforts in the US. Other instances have usually been related to managing public perception in times of war, which both parties have engaged in.
Journal article on the history of censorship in the US
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/jifp/article/view/7208/10294
[–]VulptexVoluntaryist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 2 years ago (3 children)
The fringe fire and brimstone preachers yes, but they were also historically Democrats.
[–]AntarchomachusAnarchist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 2 years ago* (2 children)
Yes...but they were still (social)conservatives. Democrats and Republicans just swapped liberal and conservative ideologies.
But yeah, the changing, ill defined nature of these words is obviously a problem
[–]VulptexVoluntaryist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 2 years ago (1 child)
Why does it matter? And most of the same people who were social conservatives are now progressives.
[–]AntarchomachusAnarchist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 2 years ago (0 children)
Why does it matter?
Because my original point had to do with conservatives and liberals, not democrats per se
And most of the same people who were social conservatives are now progressives.
I agree with you that these words are used in so many different ways that they are now essentially meaningless
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