Comments by "BaltimoreAndOhioRR" (@BaltimoreAndOhioRR) on "Liberals, But Not Leftists, Admit They Lost the Plot on Affirmative Action" video.

  1. In the US, Liberals are Leftists. To say another way, Liberals are on the left of the political spectrum. Conservatives are on the right. Democrats are on the left, Republicans are on the right. Conservatives want to conserve the traditions, values, norms, beliefs, and general ways of life this country was founded upon. Liberals want to liberate away from those same traditions, values, norms, beliefs, and ways of life. It's pretty much that basic. If you're a Liberal, you're on the Left, therefore a Leftist. Obviously, there can be some overlap. A person can have some conservative and also liberal values. There are also degrees and extremes of each side. But the bottom line is that we can't change the difinition of the words to make ourselves sound better. "Leftist" has become a derogatory word, so most want to be called Liberal now. Those people are still on the left. It's kind of similar to saying, "I'm not a Conservative, I'm a Traditionalist". For all intents and purposes, they're the same thing. Whatever little ways we tweak the definitions to differentiate them, they are so minute that they're meaningless in any normal conversation. They mean the same thing and are interchangeable.
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  2. Liberals ARE leftists.
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