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The two negative uses of the term here:
When liberals offer solutions they're often about placing "personal responsibility" on individuals to fix fundamentally systematic problems they can never fix. For example, plastic recycling. They offer an individualistic solution that's really meant to pass the buck on litter and pollution from producers (owner class) to consumers (more working class).
The romantic mythology of men as islands etc etc. False ideas of independence and strength as a single person or family that's basically self-sufficient. Turns out, we live in a society. But the individualistic myth lives on and tells people that being a selfish asshole is good in and of itself.