Using the term "personal freedom" in a liberal environment is deceiving, because often "personal freedom" also entails rights to property and other methods the bourgeoise use to oppress the working class.
Liberals have successfully merged ideas of personal freedom and capitalist freedom. It's important that people have access to homes (which liberals call private property). It's bad to have a leech class scalp homes (which liberals also call private property) and use their excess supply of that necessity to make a profit off working class people.
Conflating ideas is an important rhetorical strategy for capitalists that allows people to easily stomach exploitation in the name of basic personal freedoms.
That doesn't refute that liberal democracies have averaged better at protecting them than any of the alternatives thus far, just that liberal democracies have the highest standard achievable, which basically nobody but ultra patriotic conservatives would be arguing.
Like 90% of leftist gripe with "liberals" is problems conservatives either have a monopoly on or are far worse enough at that leftists always attacking liberals over it first comes across as tone deaf to the current political realities.
It's the equivalent of freaking out that the LHC might have made a mini black hole when TON-618 is standing right behind you.
Conservatives want to shoot gay people in the streets but let's not let that stop us from reminding everyone that the liberals who don't want that to happen are also bad because they have outdated economic and foreign policy views.
Leftists have gotta stop picking fights with liberals as if they are the only other side of the discussion in the room, and that they're the worst other side.
I would love to live in a world where Joe Biden was the standard bearer of the relative right wing in America, but that is not the case even remotely, and high and mighty leftists do not make me feel like we will move any closer to such a future when they have to be harangued shamed and bullied into checking some marks on a piece of paper to keep as many fascists out of office as possible.
Using the term "personal freedom" in a liberal environment is deceiving, because often "personal freedom" also entails rights to property and other methods the bourgeoise use to oppress the working class.
Liberals have successfully merged ideas of personal freedom and capitalist freedom. It's important that people have access to homes (which liberals call private property). It's bad to have a leech class scalp homes (which liberals also call private property) and use their excess supply of that necessity to make a profit off working class people.
Conflating ideas is an important rhetorical strategy for capitalists that allows people to easily stomach exploitation in the name of basic personal freedoms.
That doesn't refute that liberal democracies have averaged better at protecting them than any of the alternatives thus far, just that liberal democracies have the highest standard achievable, which basically nobody but ultra patriotic conservatives would be arguing.
Like 90% of leftist gripe with "liberals" is problems conservatives either have a monopoly on or are far worse enough at that leftists always attacking liberals over it first comes across as tone deaf to the current political realities.
It's the equivalent of freaking out that the LHC might have made a mini black hole when TON-618 is standing right behind you.
Conservatives want to shoot gay people in the streets but let's not let that stop us from reminding everyone that the liberals who don't want that to happen are also bad because they have outdated economic and foreign policy views.
Leftists have gotta stop picking fights with liberals as if they are the only other side of the discussion in the room, and that they're the worst other side.
I would love to live in a world where Joe Biden was the standard bearer of the relative right wing in America, but that is not the case even remotely, and high and mighty leftists do not make me feel like we will move any closer to such a future when they have to be harangued shamed and bullied into checking some marks on a piece of paper to keep as many fascists out of office as possible.