• papertowels@lemmy.one
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    4 months ago

    Informal, modern society understands it the way you do, the term is just different here on Lemmy lol.

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      4 months ago

      And in the entire rest of the world outside of the US. See the Liberal Democrats of the UK for example. Or, like, formal/academic discussion even within the US. John Locke was a classical liberal, Ronald Reagan was a neoliberal, etc.

      It’s only informally, when the right started using it as a scare word, that people started using it differently, and that was relatively recent considering the history of the word.