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here. I really, truly, and honestly don't believe that's so. Look at their lists of action groups: food not bombs, canada-cuba friendship, third wave feminists. (there are some which may be termed neutral, but certinaly none that may be termed conservative) Find me one, (person or group) I'd be impressed.
I think that the problem here, Matt, is with your use of the term 'liberal'. You seem to employ it in the American context, where anyone who's ideology is centrist or further left is labelled this way. The use of the term in our political discourse differs somewhat.
Stephen's comment noted that some members of WPIRG might not like being called liberal, and I would have to agree. Being liberal means one accepts that individual rights are sacrosanct in a society, though some liberals believe certain constraints must be put on certain individuals or society so that others might be fully able to realise these rights (the twentieth-century version of liberalism).
Incidentally, I consider myself a 'liberal', though I mean it in its original 19th century context, and I most certainly don't mean 'Liberal'. All this while I'm known to be a Conservative, but not a conservative. You see the problem with political labels? [ Parent ]
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