Liberals are pro free speech and stuff like that. At least they are supposed to be. They don't want to run away from ideas. They also don't label anyone who disagrees with them alt right.
The left are not pro free speech, they are snowflakes, will not hesitate to label anyone who disagrees with them alt right or racist or a nazi. They love identity politics and playing the victim. And like in most cults: diversity of thought is frowned upon.
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Liberals believe in individual rights. The basis of liberal theory is that people have an inalienable right to life, liberty and property, and that a social contract is formed as a nation with a government that is given money and authority in order to protect people's rights. You have classical liberals, such as me, who are economically right wing and aren't really a fan of either government policies to redistribute wealth (and are thus economically right-wing) or policies restricting people's social liberty further than not allowing them to violate other people's rights. You have constitutional conservatives in the US who are another form of liberal because the constitution is ultimately a document based on liberal values, though at times they'll be in favor of policy that has been enshrined for a long time that restricts social liberty, such as weed prohibition. Then you have social liberals who are generally center-left, the difference between them and classical liberals being that social liberals believe the government should pass policies to allocate taxpayer money or government programs to assist the people at the bottom of society, though they still believe in property rights and that the economy should be a capitalist one with some government intervention. All three of these types of people could qualify as different types of liberals, because all three of these groups believe the government should primarily exist to protect the individual and their rights, and fundamentally view people as individuals.
There are some positions you could argue for either side of based on liberal principles, such as abortion, you could make the argument from liberal principle that the government has no business involving itself in that decision because of a woman's right to liberty, or conversely you could argue from a liberal point of principle that the fetus has a right to life and that it is justified on liberal principle for the government to pass legislation preventing the termination of life. Or on immigration policy you could argue from liberal principles that it should be looser in order to grant people more liberty to immigrate, or you could argue from liberal principles that it should be tighter on the basis of social contract theory and suggest that the government has much more of a responsibility to its own citizens than foreign non-citizens.
The left is also a decently broad spectrum ranging economically from being a center-left person who supports a primarily capitalist economy with some social programs, to being a Bernie Sanders-esque social democrat who believes that the government should pass a degree of social programs beyond the point of trying to address poverty and ensure people survive and instead to the point of trying to redistribute wealth because "some people have too much", to being a total marxist who does not believe in property rights at all and thinks we should equalize wealth within a society. Socially, the attitudes can range from fairly unwavering support for the social liberty of an individual to act without government interference on things like speech or drugs etc. and who believe people should be judged as individuals and treated as individuals, to those with some progressive leanings who think we need to do more as a society to address racism and sexism but still wouldn't dream of judging someone or treating them differently under the law based on their group identity or restricting their free speech, to full blown SJWs who believe in judging people based on their identity group, passing corporate and legal policies discriminating in favor of "diversity", and shutting down or legally restricting speech they find offensive.
There is overlap between leftists and liberals in the form of social liberals, who are economically left-wing but still believe in capitalism and social liberty and freedom of speech and individualism, and those are the leftists whose views I can respect even if I disagree with them economically to an extent. I may not agree with social liberals economically, but I can respect the altruistic motivation of trying to address poverty with government policy. Economically when it goes past being center-left or moderately left-wing to being middle left or far left, or in other words when it goes beyond the point of wanting to address poverty to being envious of wealthier people and holding marxist sympathies or anticapitalist sentiment, that's the point economically when I could no longer call a left-winger a liberal. Socially, when a left-winger thinks people should be judged or held to different legal or corporate standards based on their identity group, or that ideas they don't like should be censored, or that freedom of speech should be infringed upon by the government, that is the point socially where I couldn't call a left-winger a liberal.
That's just my two cents.
The two terms are not mutually exclusive, but they are certainly not synonymous. I myself as a classical liberal and someone who considers John Locke their favorite political philosopher strongly believe in liberal values and principles, and I'm fine with genuine social liberals being referred to as liberals, but the term liberal is an inappropriate term to apply to marxists, marxist sympathizers, or SJWs.
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Contrary to popular belief you don't have to be economically left-wing to be a liberal.
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I don't know why some of you are going on about being right and winning. Rob and Impediment were in on this gag because I PMed them. Silent and Rao PMed me and figured I changed the post. I highly doubt anybody thought Quan made the post, but simply played along just for the lulz.
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