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To reiterate @[email protected]'s point, both of those cultural tendencies are liberal, they are just liberalism with different pretensions. One is liberalism with a pretention towards 'fairness and realism' (conservative) the other is a pretension towards 'equality and justice' (liberal), neither of them delivers on their point because like liberalism is just about preserving aristocratic rights for businesses and business owners, it's not actually about individual rights, freedoms or justice.
I mostly agree. I’ve heard conservatives mention fairness, but fairness to them means doing what you’re told based on the socially constructed capitalist hierarchy (with cis white men on top and everyone else taking orders from them obviously). If you openly question this, you mark yourself out as an enemy of “natural” law.
Correct, both strains of liberals believe in a meritocracy. They just have different qualities as to what is meritorious, and why it is meritorious, and ultimately it falls flat because actual emancipation is not merit-based.