• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    The word means “advocate for human rights and freedoms so long as those freedoms do not infringe upon others”

    So if you’re saying the only thing standing in the way of your ideal future is respecting human rights, then maybe the problem is you?

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      10 days ago

      No, the problem is that they coopted the word for their specific ideology in the same way conservatives are not in fact there to conserve anything and fascists don’t inspire unity in society.