• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It’s such a meaningless term it’s impossible to even say what it is

    Big “what even IS a racist?” energy 🙄

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      2 months ago

      I don’t think that’s exactly fair, the term did get coopted by right wing anarcho-capitalists, so its had a pretty significant semantic shift from its left wing social anarchist origins.

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        2 months ago

        There’s still left-libertarians in the world. You just have to specify now that anarcho-capitalists have appropriated the term, rather than pretend that no elaboration can possibly apply.

        Having to be more specific when referring to other kinds of libertarians because of definition drift is annoying, sure, but it hardly makes the term meaningless.

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        2 months ago

        Because it’s the most common word that people falsely call meaningless.

        I didn’t intend to imply that you’re a racist, though if you were a right-libertarian (which It would seem you aren’t), there’d be a lot of overlap there lol