Pope Francis laments American universities that are ‘too liberal’ and ‘only train technicians’

[Red Velvet]

He’s talking about “liberal” in the ECONOMIC sense people, not the SOCIAL one.

He’s criticizing liberalism from a left-wing point of view, arguing that higher education tends to value more the careers associated to technology while not caring enough about the human and social arts when it shouldn’t be like that.

It’s from the same place where I come from when I attack liberals, probably most Latin Americans like the Pope see Liberalism as the ideology associated with Right-Wing Economics and Progressive social values.

These are the general “labels” to use:



“Oh he could’ve used the term “too conservative” instead that it would mean the same thing”

Not really because in Latin America each side tends to have different focus of priorities. When you say someone is a Conservative, they will be immediately more associated to Socially Conservative Politics than with Right-Wing Economics even if they support both anyway.

So when ANYTHING is too economically to the right, the correct term to use is to say it’s “too liberal” instead of “too conservative” as the average person will immediately understand that by liberal you’re talking about economic right-wing ideas.

These tend to be what each side is better known for: