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Some are, some are not.
There are anticapitalist liberals...?
Liberal in modern western political discourse has little to do with capitalism anymore and more about your stance on social issues like LGBT rights, racial equality or healthcare. Half of lemmy pretends not to understand it for some reason but it's been like that for a few decades.
It's the result of conservatives using "libtard" and "communist" interchangeably for everyone to the left of Reagan while by the old definition they're actually liberals.
Languages evolve. Prescriptivism is useless.
American centric much.
This whole liberal vs conservative discussion IS an American issue and one they've exported to Europe unfortunately. Liberal hasn't meant what you think it means in over 10 years except in circlejerks and academia
A quick hop and a skip from US-centrism to Euro-centrism doesn't really salvage the fact that liberal is still widely used around the world to describe those who adhere to liberalism, the hegemonic political-economic ideology of the west.