Depends on what you mean by “insult.” There is a difference between being openly critical of harmful or counterproductive liberal behavior, and using a term purely to express contempt. Both could be could be viewed as insulting to the recipient, but one can be constructive while the other tends to mostly be destructive.
There is also a difference between an “anarcho-curious” liberal as you put it, and a staunch, unflinching, liberal whose political identity is intrinsically linked to protecting the systemic institutions that anarchists struggle against.
The more proper term is radical centrists and they are lashing out and flailing since Harris lost the popular vote.
IT is wild how they still punch left even as their beloved political system descends into fascism. Even wilder when they blame us for their election loss while telling us how unimportant we are in the same breath.
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Depends on what you mean by “insult.” There is a difference between being openly critical of harmful or counterproductive liberal behavior, and using a term purely to express contempt. Both could be could be viewed as insulting to the recipient, but one can be constructive while the other tends to mostly be destructive.
There is also a difference between an “anarcho-curious” liberal as you put it, and a staunch, unflinching, liberal whose political identity is intrinsically linked to protecting the systemic institutions that anarchists struggle against.
@nullpotential @A404 I like the term shitlib for that kind of liberal.
The more proper term is radical centrists and they are lashing out and flailing since Harris lost the popular vote.
IT is wild how they still punch left even as their beloved political system descends into fascism. Even wilder when they blame us for their election loss while telling us how unimportant we are in the same breath.