Once again Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs) has managed to distill into once sentence something I've had trouble finding the words to explain. I'll be stealing this one!
> "The classic leftist distinction goes: leftists want to abolish a system where 150 white men run the world; liberals want to replace half of those 150 with women, queers and people of color." https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/05/not-that-naomi/#if-the-naomi-be-klein-youre-doing-just-fine
See also: Why I refuse to be labeled as a 'Liberal'. (I'm not a 'Leftist' either, exactly. But I'll leave that for another toot.)
Jack William Bell
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