Submission Statement: This NYT article traces the success of Denmark's progressive liberalism in the last two elections to an anti-immigration pivot made a decade ago. The author continues to link...
Submission Statement:
This NYT article traces the success of Denmark's progressive liberalism in the last two elections to an anti-immigration pivot made a decade ago. The author continues to link lower immigration levels with positive outcomes for working class natives and more successful welfare programs that face less burden than in high-immigration locales, ultimately advocating a view that lower immigration is truly the more progressive path.
<noise> I get so annoyed about that word. "Liberal" can mean completely opposite things depending where it's used. I didn't read the article to be clear, just skimmed some parts and scrolled...
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I get so annoyed about that word. "Liberal" can mean completely opposite things depending where it's used. I didn't read the article to be clear, just skimmed some parts and scrolled through others but of course it's the American version on account of the publication. Anyway, if here you said a Social Democrat is a liberal, it would be an insult.
Yeah, context is very important. While liberal can have the imported American meaning in the UK, probably moreso than in Denmark since we share a common language with the US. If someone was...
Yeah, context is very important. While liberal can have the imported American meaning in the UK, probably moreso than in Denmark since we share a common language with the US. If someone was waffling on about liberals in the UK I'd assume they were talking about the Liberal Democrats, our center party, who ideologically draw upon British and European liberalism.
Submission Statement:
This NYT article traces the success of Denmark's progressive liberalism in the last two elections to an anti-immigration pivot made a decade ago. The author continues to link lower immigration levels with positive outcomes for working class natives and more successful welfare programs that face less burden than in high-immigration locales, ultimately advocating a view that lower immigration is truly the more progressive path.
I get so annoyed about that word. "Liberal" can mean completely opposite things depending where it's used. I didn't read the article to be clear, just skimmed some parts and scrolled through others but of course it's the American version on account of the publication. Anyway, if here you said a Social Democrat is a liberal, it would be an insult.
This is the definition used here just to clarify.
</noise>Yeah, context is very important. While liberal can have the imported American meaning in the UK, probably moreso than in Denmark since we share a common language with the US. If someone was waffling on about liberals in the UK I'd assume they were talking about the Liberal Democrats, our center party, who ideologically draw upon British and European liberalism.