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All this does is alienate anarcho-curious liberals.

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[โ€“] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

This is something I've been kinda bewildered to see in the wild, especially amongst MLs circles. Like, surely a tremendous amount of people were Liberal before coming across some solid Anarchist stuff which made too much sense to ignore?

Speaking for myself, I certainly didn't start out Anarchist. It took a long path going from following my religious parent's ideas and traditional values, to questioning religion and becoming atheist, to investigating political ideas, where I came across right-wing libertarian concepts which seemed like the best idea at the time.

It wasn't until coming across Chomsky that I ultimately went down the road to Anarchism proper, and finally all the pieces clicked into place.

Nothing wrong with calling things out as liberal as a descriptor and to accurately point out all of its many many downfalls, but could be quite offputting to use as an insult to people reading who consider themselves liberal still.