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[–] stinky@redlemmy.com -5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Here are the definitions I'm using:

Dunn, John (1993), Western Political Theory in the Face of the Future, Cambridge University Press:

political rationalism, hostility to autocracy, cultural distaste for conservatism and for tradition in general, tolerance, and ... individualism

Iain McLean and Alistair McMillan (2009), Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics:

liberalism In general, the belief that it is the aim of politics to preserve individual rights and to maximize freedom of choice.

Where are you getting your definitions from? I feel like you're just making them up.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 8 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

What absurdly hollow and self serving definitions. You might as well say "liberalism is defined as being good"

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 7 points 18 hours ago