Liberal and Liberalist are two different terms, though. Very few liberalists are liberal.
If you support basic human rights, liberalism is diametrically opposed to your thinking. You can’t have human rights if Nestlé is allowed to own all the ground water underneath your village.
Ugh I hate how this word is now more associated with economic ideology than social ideology.
Most of us can be described as liberals. We don’t want any discrimination based on gender, race, sexual orientation etc.
Can we please go back to using liberals in that sense?
Liberalism was originally about economics.
Liberal and Liberalist are two different terms, though. Very few liberalists are liberal.
If you support basic human rights, liberalism is diametrically opposed to your thinking. You can’t have human rights if Nestlé is allowed to own all the ground water underneath your village.
Yeah proper term for people that don’t want to discriminate based on gender, race, or sexual preference should be “normal” anyways.