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My reasons were that you adopt framings of leftists. I add to it that you adopt the tropes. These are both specific reasons.
Why not? In the American parlance, post-Cold War use of 'liberal' itself was a label of leftists embarrassed by the socialists on their flanks, and used to try and distance themselves from embarrassing ideological relatives.
Leftists being ashamed of the various leftist labels is why we have euphism treadmills where terms like woke replaced terms like SJW when SJW went from being a mark of pride to cringe, or how 'cultural marxism' went from an academic term to a rightwing slur that never existed.
Alternatively- you are a contrarian. And you are on this site, in this community, because the group you are a contrarian in contrast to are not the people on this site, but the people of your own information silo / social bubble, particularly those in positions of authority to impose things upon you that you dislike.
Which are not- and you can correct me if I am wrong here- Red Tribe rightists.
You defining yourself off the contrast to your political bubble context would both be honest, and would also not disprove anything.
You are still not giving any concrete reasons, based on my numerous writings on this site, to think that I am a leftist. As for "framings of leftists", that's highly subjective. As far as contrarianism, no, I am not writing these things out of contrarianism. Not sure what would convince you. You seem to be a smart guy based on some of your posts that I have read, so I don't know why you make these assumptions about me, but the assumptions are incorrect. To be fair, I am also a smart guy and I make unwarranted assumptions all the time. I'm just trying to let you know that you're not only wrong about where I'm coming from, you're on an almost flat Earth level of wrong in your mental model of me. If you insist on disbelieving me, well... you still haven't pointed out any of my writings that would show that I am a so-called leftist. Feel free to do so, but you will probably be disappointed, unless you think that because I am a social libertarian with some mild questionings of modern capitalism it means that I am a leftist.
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