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Classic liberalism:
- Everyone should be nice to each other because all of us are in this together.
- I disagree.
- It is okay, you'll get it later.

Modern liberalism:
- Everyone has to be nice to each other because all of us are in this together.
- I disagree.
- DIE!!!

#JustSaying
Liberalisms made by Smith was completely leftist point of view, pointed towards laws, mitigating aristocracy privileges and warning about private businesses and entrepreneurs destroying freedom for profit.
@Kazimierz Kurz I always felt about basic liberal ideas as underlying basis for any human society. Everything else just builds on the top of that (or despite that).
@Alexander
Agreed. Reminds me of an article that calls this phenomenon "Liberal Fascism".

https://commentcentral.co.uk/liberal-fascism-the-most-dangerous-intolerance/
@Thew Raslletem Well, it doesn't have to be about literal death threats - just elimination of different opinion will suffice.

Basic liberalism allows for diversity of opinions unless they prove themselves directly infringing basic freedoms of others or just plain logically wrong. In this sense it is not unlike scientific approach.

Anything else is not really liberal in my opinion.
It is strange process. Liberals ( and Left as well) goes from valid social programs ( workers laws, freedom of speech, freedom of religion etc) toward focusing on lgbt groups and fighting only for "ecological illusion". How it could happened? I think it has a lot of reasons in corruption: lgbt rights are easy, workers rights are dangerous
@Kazimierz Kurz they just pretend doing something. it's difficult to solve some problems like homelessness, poverty, joblessness. and it's so easy to 'fight' something in the Internet or declare the 'equality' of anything on words. this never affects to real life, though.
@Thew Raslletem Antifa has been burning cities and looting private businesses for a year already and you have issues with far-right? The leftists are not threatening you because you don't disagree with their insanity but don't you even dare to say Trump is not racist and white supremacist. The neoliberalism is cancer and the so called anti-fascists are the real fascists bullying everyone who don't share their views. Maybe you should move to California where people shit on the streets.
@Thew Raslletem Those left-wingers in Western Europe are also saying they have far-right issues while getting beheaded by Muslim refugees over satirical cartoons. Give me a break.
@Mathias Hellquist Western Europeans have been going completely insane, they see Nazis and fascists everywhere. What a ridiculous place to be.
There is a curious "dictatorship of tolerance" these days. Everything is OK if you agree with the new idea; oh, but if you dare to disagree (even with sound arguments), you are attacked from all kinds of fronts just to silence your "disrespectful" opinion.

In the old days, that was called argumentum ad hominem and it was considered a low way to engage in a discussion.
A response to what you said would be: sit down, boomer
Which response simply proves your conclusion: that there is no more sophisticated level of discussion at the table. Sadly, for meaningful discussion, such basic rules must apply but it requires some appreciation of argument formulation and debate.