• stinky@redlemmy.com
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    21 hours ago

    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.

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      20 hours ago

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

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        19 hours ago

        Iain McLean has worked at the Universities of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Warwick, and Oxford, and has held visiting professorships at Washington & Lee, Stanford, Yale, and the Australian National University. He has been an elected councillor on Tyne & Wear County Council (committee chair) and Oxford City Council (group leader).

        You think his definition is “absurdly hollow and self serving” ? Honey what have you accomplished? Do you really think your argument holds any water against a resume like Dr. McLean’s? For you to describe his work as “absurd and hollow” is the height of irony.🤣💀 Thank you for making my day!!!