Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Maybe you could look at liberalism as a political philosophy that could be caricatured as "politeness" -- everyone is free to have their own opinions as long as they don't impinge on anyone else. But this it is precisely this politeness that prevents anything more radical from emerging and disrupting the capitalist real. K-Punk is at war with liberalism (aka being polite).
But* this is just another stupid false dichotomy: that the only alternatives are on the one hand "liberalism" (in the perjorative sense used by the significantly-more-radical-than-yow, which means speaking only when spoken to, minding Ps and Qs, not rocking the boat, and every other cliche of PC MOR milquetoaste inoffensive** relativism); and on the other hand, screaming "FASCIST!!!" in the face of anyone with the temerity to question your convictions. I mean, whatever happened to vigorous (but civilised) and impassioned (but informed, reasoned, mature) debate? I mean, I hope that's not a totally oxymoronic idea, is it?
Also, the word 'bourgeois' cracks me up. Especially when people use it, invariably as an insult, without realising that this is pretty much the most bourgeois thing you can possibly say. It's like hipsters banging on all the time about how awful hipsters are, or something.
*obvs I'm aware you're not arguing your own position here exactly
**that said, I think the near-orthodoxy that the worst thing you possibly do is offend someone is extremely damaging to the standard of political discourse in this country
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