Left or Liberal?

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🗓️ 11 January 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Tell the average American you’re a liberal and they’ll assume you’re on the political left. Yet, leftists and liberals hold very different positions on key issues. In this video, Dennis Prager explains how the tenets of liberalism like a belief in capitalism and free speech have more in common with conservatism than with the identity politics and racial resentment preached by the left.

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0:00.0	What's the difference between a liberal and a leftist?
0:04.5	This question stumps most people because they think liberal and left are essentially the
0:09.2	same.
0:10.5	But they're not.
0:11.7	In fact, liberalism and leftism have almost nothing in common.
0:15.8	But the left has appropriated the word liberal so effectively.
0:20.4	Almost everyone, liberals, leftists and conservatives thinks they are synonymous.
0:26.2	Out there not.
0:27.8	Let me offer you six examples.
0:31.0	One.
0:32.0	Race.
0:33.0	This is probably the most obvious difference between liberal and left.
0:36.7	The liberal position on race has always been.
0:39.8	A.
0:40.8	The color of a person's skin is insignificant.
0:44.4	And B.
0:45.6	Those who believe race is significant.
0:48.3	Are racists?
0:49.4	Meanwhile, the left believes the very opposite.
0:53.2	To the left, it's the liberal attitude toward race.
0:56.5	It's unimportant.
0:58.0	That is racist.
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