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はてなキーワード: liberalとは
➤「救いようが最もうない、極東の自称他称の〝ジャーナリスト〟や〝学者〟、〝知米派〟は読まなくても構い。読んでもその肥大化した自己承認欲求、度し難い自己愛性人格では読むことはできないし、理解もできない。ただ見下した目線で見やるだけで、そこに自分が利用できる素材がなければ鼻で嗤うだけだ。この文章は、我がU.S.を領りたい、領ろうと下向きの反省的眼光で欲する諸君に読んで貰いたい。
I Traveled to 46 States in America This Summer. Here’s Why Trump Won.
By Frank S. Zhou
By Ezekiel A. Wells
Ezekiel A. Wells ’27 is a Double Concentrator in Environment Science & Engineering and Economics in Eliot House. He spent last summer traveling to 46 American states conducting interviews for his YouTube series, “Crossroads America.”
A week after Democrats’ election loss, accusations have flown in every direction within their Party. Some fault President Joe Biden for an egoistic refusal to drop out of the race earlier. Some blame the Harris campaign for failing to serve key demographics and communicate a clear vision for the country. And some blame Americans, claiming that racism and sexism drove voters toward Trump.
These factors certainly exist, but we’re missing a larger piece of the picture.
Over the summer, I traveled to 46 states in the U.S., creating a YouTube series highlighting slices of life across the country. In conversations from my nearly three-month road trip, I spoke with Republicans who were certain that inflation is entirely Biden’s fault and Democrats who, despite their frustrations with corporate profits and desires for universal healthcare, hoped for a more moderate candidate. From supporters of all candidates, I heard a shocking amount of misinformation.
After combing through hundreds of hours of interview footage from swing state Trump voters, I am certain that, as much as other factors influenced the outcome of the election, our crumbling media landscape — which has caused a rift in our democracy — is most to blame.
In the postwar period, news was dominated by three main channels, and because of the Fairness Doctrine, each station reported the same stories and covered multiple sides of each issue. Viewers picked which channels they watched mainly based on their preferences for news anchors’ personalities. Of course, this model had its problems, but, at the end of the day, it meant that Americans worked with a shared set of facts.
A shared set of facts is not the world we live in today.
Throughout my interviews, conspiracy theories were rampant, and on at least five separate occasions across separate states, I was told that Bill Gates tampers with our food, adding plastic to our fruits and vegetables to make his medical investments more profitable.
In conversations with voters, neither side seemed able to name many specific policy issues they cared about; everyone just seemed to repeat the words of their favorite pundits, podcast hosts, and internet personalities.
Although this behavior is harmful, I don’t blame everyday Americans. Blame falls on the media that has ostracized, disillusioned, and misinformed them.
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I first saw this trend with low-wage workers in West Virginia, who — despite falling inflation rates — have seen stagnated salaries and clear increases in food costs. Channels like Fox News bred anger and resentment for many of them.
Take July of this summer, for example, when for the first time in his presidency, prices actually fell under the Biden administration. Traditional media establishments rushed to celebrate this victory, with one article from CNN declaring, “The White House can finally cross out ‘inflation’ on its list of presidential liabilities.” However, outside these bubbles, I observed many Americans held a different view.
In late July, I was welcomed at a massive family reunion in Tylertown, Mississippi, where one Trump voter — a middle-aged, Black, family man, pastor, and soul food enthusiast — made this clear.
“When I go in the grocery stores, and I gotta spend my last to get groceries, you mean to tell me I’m not gonna look and see who’s gonna vote to help me? I voted for Trump and I’d vote for him again, because he put money in our pocket,” he told me.
In their coverage, mainstream news organizations obsess over the Federal Reserve’s next rate cuts while failing to connect with people concerned with their next meals. With titles like “Vance: Young Americans ‘Are Becoming Paupers’ Due To Inflation, High Housing Costs,” sites like The Daily Wire had their fingers on the pulse of American sentiment, welcoming new readership from those who felt neglected by traditional media.
This problem was not just confined to the economy. While Biden’s mental state was deteriorating, liberal media outlets seemed to under-cover these stories, sheltering him from scrutiny of his declining capabilities, until the infamous presidential debate.
Formerly trusted networks slowly made themselves indigestible to the polarized American public, and in 2024, for the third year in a row, a Gallup poll found that more Americans indicated having “no trust” in the media than those who trust it a “great deal/fair amount”.
So where does the average American turn when the nation’s media cannot be trusted? For many people, it was YouTube talk shows, Newsmax, and podcasters such as Joe Rogan.
While Democrats seek to blame various internal factors for this election’s loss, I cannot help but think of Joe Rogan’s Trump endorsement, the many blind lies I heard from ordinary citizens across the country, and declining trust in American journalism.
As Harvard students and members of higher education institutions, we have a part to play in the problem. At Harvard’s Institute of Politics, those who denied the 2020 election results have been precluded from speaking at the JFK Jr. Forum. While the goal is understandable, it shields students from understanding the American viewpoints they represent.
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There is a difference between platforming intentional and manipulative misinformation and listening to and learning about where people are and what they believe.
As a pipeline to mainstream media, Harvard, and its future journalists, have to consider the audience they lose when they stay inside of their bubble and ignore the issues of everyday Americans.
The disappearance of factual importance in our world is alarming and dangerous, but if we, as aspiring journalists, politicians, and engaged citizens, want to be taken seriously in communicating Trump’s threat to democracy, inflationary tariff policies, and so on, we owe American voters that seriousness, too.
Ezekiel A. Wells ’27 is a Double Concentrator in Environment Science & Engineering and Economics in Eliot House. He spent last summer traveling to 46 American states conducting interviews for his YouTube series, “Crossroads America."
・学問、幅広い知識、精神の修養などを通して得られる創造的活力や心の豊かさ、物事に対する理解力。また、その手段としての学問・芸術・宗教などの精神活動。
・教養とは，一般に人格的な生活を向上させるための知・情・意の修練，つまり，たんなる学殖多識，専門家的職業生活のほかに一定の文化理想に応じた精神的能力の全面的開発，洗練を意味する
・実利主義的，立身出世的，政治的な明治の〈修養〉概念に対して，大正の〈教養〉には内面的，精神的，非ないし反政治的，人格主義的等々のニュアンスが強く帯びさせられているわけである。
・人間の精神を豊かにし、高等円満な人格を養い育てていく努力、およびその成果をさす。とかく専門的な知識や特定の職業に限定されやすいわれわれの精神を、広く学問、芸術、宗教などに接して全面的に発達させ、全体的、調和的人間になることが教養人の理想である
・精神文化一般に対する理解と知識をもち，人間的諸能力が全体的，調和的に発達している状態。
・教養教育を意味するLiberal Artsは、近代大学のルーツといわれる中世ヨーロッパ大学においては、聖書を読み解くための能力（論理、修辞、文法）と神の摂理による自然現象を理解するための能力（天文、算術、幾何、音楽）から構成されていました。つまり教養とは、キリスト教世界において「神につながる」力を意味したのです。
・生きていく上で価値判断の基準となる自分なりのものさしを持っている人のことを教養があると表現しています。
・自分の力で「いかに生きるか」を考える人々が出現しました。彼らは古典語（ラテン語）を駆使して「いかに生きるか」に思いを巡らしました。教養とは古典語に精通することでもありました。
https://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%95%99%E9%A4%8A-53100
https://www.cshe.nagoya-u.ac.jp/nu_stips/sub2_colum_2.html
色々定義はあるが教養は単なる知識に留まらず、文化理解や精神的な豊かさなどの非実利的な意味合いを含む定義が多くある。
これらの意味合いを含める定義に従うなら、知識量あっても知識マウント取ったりする人間は人格に問題があるので教養がないし、知識量等は平均レベルでも精神的に円熟してる人は教養があると言えよう。
https://twitter.com/kadokawahonyaku/status/1731097324615860583
角川トランス本のツイートでもこの大学生40％がやたらみんなの琴線に触れるっぽいので調べてみた。
https://www.cspicenter.com/p/diverse-and-divided-a-political-demography
Liberal arts colleges are the least politically diverse. Many have almost no conservatives, and thus very low viewpoint diversity. But they have high sexual diversity, at nearly 40 percent LGBT.
というわけで、米国のリベラルアーツカレッジでは40％がLGBT、というのがソースらしい。
一方で、大学全体だと、
23％となるらしい。
だから角川のツイートは不正確で、大学生の23％がLGBTQ、リベラルアーツカレッジの40％がLGBTというべきだね。
ただ、リベラルアーツカレッジではなぜLGBT率が高まるのか、この差は気になるよね。
オタクの王が不倫してた！ 表現の自由戦士が求めてたのはこういう不倫の自由だったってワケ（笑）みたいなIQ二桁ブクマカがまあまあおってたまげてる。
そしてこういうことを書くと切断処理だーとか反応してくる感じもあってかなり厳しい
党派性をインストールしたBOTって結構最悪な部類のヤツじゃん
でもあそこらへんの人たちを神輿にして喜んでたオタクさんサイドも終わってる感じするんだよな
リベーラとかいうリベラルをもじった名前の敵をやっつけて喜ぶマンガをLiberal Democratic Partyの一員が描くっていう滑稽さったらこれもまた厳しかったね
しかも最後の最後に「って感じでどーでしょ」みたいな作中作の体裁をとっていてガチじゃないんですよｗみたいな保険掛けててダサすぎワロタって感じ
話がズレたが、「表現の自由は不倫の自由（笑）」みたいな反応はヤマーダ()レドマツ()より知能指数低いからやめた方がいいよ
日本の左派ってあんまりリベラル（自由主義）的じゃあないんだよね。どちらかと言うと自称リベラル。以前はリベラルと言わずに革新勢力とか言ってた。保守対革新とかね。
彼らがリベラルと自称しだしたのは割と最近のことで、アメリカの「リベラル」勢の真似なんだと思う。紛らわしいったらありゃしない。
今でもイギリスだと古典的な意味でLiberalという言葉が使われる事が多いし、ホントはやめて欲しいんだよね。ああいう「リベラル」の使い方は。
ちなみに日本で Liberal を党名にうたった政党は、有名なところだと、自由民主党(Liberal Democratic Party)や、吉田茂の自由党(Liberal Party)や、板垣退助の自由党や、小沢一郎の自由党などがある。
