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Anti-Imperialists Want To Improve The World; Liberals Just Want To Feel Good About Themselves (infosec.pub)
submitted 11 hours ago by Maeve@kbin.earth to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world
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If you’re a liberal you oppose the idea of children being killed and starved in the abstract, because thinking of yourself as a moral person allows you to feel nice feelings about yourself, but you have no interest in taking a well-defined stand against the empire which routinely kills and starves children via genocides, wars of aggression, and siege warfare.
You don’t want families living in poverty because it would make you feel like a bad person if you did, but you also don’t take a concrete stand against the capitalist system whose very existence depends on the perpetual creation of poverty and scarcity.
You kinda-sorta want everyone to have happy and plentiful lives free from fear and tyranny, but you don’t want to consider the possibility that your own country is responsible for abusing, terrorizing and exploiting the global south. Because that would make you feel uncomfortable feelings.
It’s not about wanting to actually help humanity and fix the world’s problems, it’s about you and your feelings.

Crosspost fromhttps://news.abolish.capital/post/40225

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[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

IDK; "liberal" just seems a much broader and imprecise term than anti-imperialist.

Also, I am not an anti-imperialist, I am anti-imperialist. Amongst other things. For me, it's an adjective, not a noun.

Lastly, this is the US definition of "liberal".

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It's the definition of liberal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 3 points 1 hour ago

Scroll down a little!

Modern usage and definitions

In Europe and Latin America, liberalism means a moderate form of classical liberalism and includes both conservative liberalism (centre-right liberalism) and social liberalism (centre-left liberalism). In North America, liberalism almost exclusively refers to social liberalism. The dominant Canadian party is the Liberal Party, and the Democratic Party is usually considered liberal in the United States. In the United States, conservative liberals are usually called conservatives in a broad sense.