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How odd. "Liberal" afterall means "Free".
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Yeah, the irony isn't lost on us either.
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In the US this is apparently no longer the case.
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It started out that way. And liberals tend to see themselves as defenders of the downtrodden...but their solution tends to be excessive laws which oppress everyone else in the process. Liberals tend to be very authoritarian.
And that is what the word is associated with. PC means "politically correct"...it is a term used to describe choosing certain words simply because they are less likely to offend a given group of people.
"Liberal" therefore has a negative connotation in the US, and liberals themselves (at least most of them) don't like the word because of that. They prefer to be called "progressives" now. But there is no difference between the ideologies...it is semantic only.