Source: https://lemmy.ml/post/27043121/17226563
Modlog entry: https://lemmy.sdf.org/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=1752751
Also, Tankie is very clearly defined, but they don't want to talk about that lmao: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
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Where double standard? “Liberal” isn’t a pejorative, but “tankie” is according to Wikipedia.
Anything can be a pejorative if you use it correctly you fucking gazebo.
They absolutely use liberal as a pejorative, but since it has other meanings to it as well, it's not strictly defined as solely a pejorative
But the Wikipedia for liberalism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism) does in fact have a blurb for it:
There are tons of other words that can be considered as a pejorative, from "weird" to "moron" to "Tree-hugger" to even "Nazi"
They’re not using liberalism in that context, though, the one that Wikipedia says is often used as a pejorative. They’re not Republicans “owning the libs.” They’re using it in the “classical liberalism” context.
But they apply it to anarchists and other leftists who believe in abolishing private property, which is wholly incompatible with liberalism.
Okay… I haven’t seen that happen. There are plenty of anarchists on hexbear and lemmy.ml, and they have anarchist communities.