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[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sure, people who criticize liberalism (leftists) tend to point out that liberals have a very, very specific definition of "human" when it comes to their track record of human rights, especially before WW2, and if you held the historical liberal nations to account of that fact liberalism has only actually existed fairly recently.

With that in mind, they get credit for the reality of liberalism as it has been practiced for most of its history. Mostly applied to property owning white men.

And obviously many of those issues were eventually addressed, at least in part. That progress is something that was directly against the ideology of the Second Reich, and no amount of hypocrisy from historical liberalism will change that.

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