I know in Marxian terms that liberal encompasses almost our entire political system today - that is laissez faire liberal economics, or who Marx often referred to as liberals - the sort of faux Enlightenment 'rights of the individual' old liberals (Whigs... I guess).
But the definition has shifted in the mainstream to mean supposed 'social' liberalism ('supporting' LGBT, wearing a kente cloth as a white person, supporting the bare minimum tax/benefit proposals) - social liberalism that does not challenge the economic order of things. In the modern sense, Sky News is not liberal.
I know we like to be strict with our definitions, but I think calling Sky News liberal is a bit confusing - for Americans particularly - because iirc Sky is a British and Australian thing, whereas America gets Fox first hand, rather than through Sky. They're pretty explicitly right wing, and the right does ally with Nazis closer than liberals, even if when it comes down to the wire liberals support fascism over communism.
"Divisive" being code for "Nazi"
Liberals will always defend fascists.
I suppose liberal in the old sense of the word, but Sky News is explicitly right wing. Used to be Rupert Murdoch's.
What do you think liberal means?
I know in Marxian terms that liberal encompasses almost our entire political system today - that is laissez faire liberal economics, or who Marx often referred to as liberals - the sort of faux Enlightenment 'rights of the individual' old liberals (Whigs... I guess).
But the definition has shifted in the mainstream to mean supposed 'social' liberalism ('supporting' LGBT, wearing a kente cloth as a white person, supporting the bare minimum tax/benefit proposals) - social liberalism that does not challenge the economic order of things. In the modern sense, Sky News is not liberal.
I know we like to be strict with our definitions, but I think calling Sky News liberal is a bit confusing - for Americans particularly - because iirc Sky is a British and Australian thing, whereas America gets Fox first hand, rather than through Sky. They're pretty explicitly right wing, and the right does ally with Nazis closer than liberals, even if when it comes down to the wire liberals support fascism over communism.