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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Liberalism invites a clash of cultures, ideologies, and philosophies. It's a way to ask questions, not a fixed credo of answers. What it does insist on is:
- The most open arena of ideologies possible.
- The insistence that we hash them out using reason, and not tradition or sacredness or any other closed value.
- The recognition that all citizens have their own inherent worth that is not prescribed by gender, race, birth, etc.
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Seems oddly illiberal then to shut out the value of identity politics because it includes some bad apples and doesn't follow closely enough to "traditional" liberalism.
Standard IP strives for those exact same things. Your broad-stroke "safe space" version of it (while a version of it, not the definitive one) might not, but it seems like we're not having an honest conversation if we can't first admit that the "special snowflake" version of IP isn't representative of the whole.