It’s no fault of EA to not understand the distinction well
I don’t know about EA, but I’m from another country with a different political map, so I’m trying to approximate US politics and don’t really dinstinguish between “liberals”, “progressives”, “leftists” etc.
In my country (Israel) we mostly think in terms of “left” and “right”, and economic liberalism is farily new.
Yeah, I’m from Canada, which is both similar and close enough to the USA for the country’s politics to be more understandable to us. There are others in EA from Europe who occasionally have some difficulty understanding the complexities of American politics too. Anyway, while it’s worth checking with some Americans in EA who might know better, my impression is that most of the criticisms of EA from the political left have been from those further left of mainstream Democrats in the United States (e.g., Clinton, Obama, Biden, etc.).
I don’t know about EA, but I’m from another country with a different political map, so I’m trying to approximate US politics and don’t really dinstinguish between “liberals”, “progressives”, “leftists” etc.
In my country (Israel) we mostly think in terms of “left” and “right”, and economic liberalism is farily new.
Yeah, I’m from Canada, which is both similar and close enough to the USA for the country’s politics to be more understandable to us. There are others in EA from Europe who occasionally have some difficulty understanding the complexities of American politics too. Anyway, while it’s worth checking with some Americans in EA who might know better, my impression is that most of the criticisms of EA from the political left have been from those further left of mainstream Democrats in the United States (e.g., Clinton, Obama, Biden, etc.).