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teamramonycajal  ·  3890 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: INCOMING RACISM RANT YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

Can we coin a term for this? 'Boulder liberal'? Liberal about everything BUT people who are not white or don't make a six-figure salary and who are apparently on the exclusionary side when it comes to access to higher education?

It's still better than 'conservative'.





user-inactivated  ·  3890 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Basically it's just swinging so far left that you end up on the right again. Conservative-Liberal, essentially.

The reason Boulder thinks it's Liberal is because, wooh, legal weed.

teamramonycajal  ·  3890 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It reminds me of that one movement of gay Nazis I read about on the internet (I can't remember who they are) who was basically white supremacist and misogynist but for LGBT rights.

Not only are they as fucking stupid as their straight counterparts, but they're basically the gay equivalent of black KKK members.

EDIT: An SPLC article about them

beezneez  ·  3890 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Neo-liberal!

teamramonycajal  ·  3890 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's just an economic policy.

beezneez  ·  3890 days ago  ·  link  ·  

From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism#Corrupted_neoliberalism Not all members of a society may have equal access to the law or to information, even when everyone is theoretically equal under the law, as in a liberal democracy. This is because access to the law and information is not free as liberals (such as Hayek) assume, but have associated costs. Therefore, in this context, it is sound to say that the wealthy have greater rights than the poor.

In some cases, the poor may have practically no rights at all if their income falls below the levels necessary to access the law and unbiased sources of information, while the very wealthy may have the ability to choose which rights and responsibilities they bear if they can move themselves and their property internationally, resulting in social stratification, also known as class. This alleged tendency to create and strengthen class has resulted in some (most famously David Harvey[70]) claiming that neoliberalism is a class project, designed to impose class on society through liberalism.