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What's the Difference Between Liberals and Leftists?

An Explainer

Nathan Allebach
Jul 08, 2021
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Nothing fuels online discourse like fights over language. New terms will popularize in a subculture then trickle into the zeitgeist until they lose universal meaning, if it was ever there to begin with. Terminology such as “weaponize,” “virtue signal,” “identity politics,” “moral panic,” “bad faith,” and “cancel culture” gets diffused so widely and unsy…

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Nathan Allebach
Writer covering internet culture, advertising, and conspiracy theories. Work has appeared in Vulture, Arc Digital, and elsewhere.
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