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Originally posted by Ustwo
... Now if he said ‘You conservative baby killer homophobes want to force your barbaric religion on my children’, you lowered the debate, but it wasn’t the ‘conservative’ label that did it.
Now I know that Reagan turned liberal into a dirty word. So much so that most liberals don’t want to be called liberal, and some have gone with the, progressive title, which now sounds SO much better, after all progress is good right? But that doesn’t change who you are, and why should you hide from it?
If you take liberal views, you are a liberal. Me calling you a liberal doesn’t diminish you, it just makes it easy to identify the crux of the argument.
So my question to you liberals, conservatives, undecideds, and others, why the hate of the label?
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I think the problem many of us liberal types have is when folks are calling someone Liberal (or 'Lib', as the pill-popper likes to do), they are pidgeonholing that person into their narrowly preconceived stereotype, that usually goes along the lines of: We want to tax all of your money, kill your unborn babies, arrest you when you pray in school, let killers 'off the hook' by not killing them, give your hardearned money to crack addicts with 14 children, and forcefeed your children pornography.
The post with the Kennedy quote pretty clearly illustrates the different defintions Liberal has come to have, and why I like to hear folks' individual definitions for these terms so that we can come to an understanding- that maybe once we get past these preconceived notions we'll see that we actually share a lot of the same ideological ground.