OT:authoritarian or libertarian was Re: [Gllug] Whitelist-only spam filtering

Rev Simon Rumble simon at rumble.net
Fri Sep 13 07:13:00 UTC 2002


On Thu 12 Sep, Sean Burlington bloviated thus:

> liberal is a term just as misused and isn't at all what I meant - it 
> actually seems not to be a word that has any real meaning - (except in 
> the context of 'a liberal measure of whisky')

To confuse matters further, Australia has a political party called the
Liberal Party.  They are, however, the conservatives who currently
hold government.  So you'll often hear the term "small l liberal" to
differentiate from "Liberal" (i.e., conservative).

Confused yet?

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