Libertophile & Libertophobe

"Two useful words for libertarians to know and use"

libertophile & libertophobe  Two useful words for libertarians to know and use (although currently more common in French, apparently). A libertophile is someone who likes, is attracted to, or loves liberty; a libertophobe is someone who dislikes, is repelled by, or hates liberty (but, of course, not “irrationally” so in either case: as that would literally be nonsense). All libertarians are libertophiles. Their social philosophy is really only an extreme or consistent version of “live and let live”, after all. All so-called “liberals”, by contrast, are libertophobes. That is, “liberal” in the corrupt modern (especially U.S.) sense that roughly means advocating state authoritarianism and so-called “democracy” for egalitarian ends.

Etymologically, both “libertophile” and “libertophobe” mix Latin and Greek (“o” being inserted for euphony). So does “television”, incidentally: it would be “telerama” in all Greek or “procolvision” in all Latin. “Eleutherophile” and “eleutherophobe” are existing obscure words that are both all Greek. But they appear to be too difficult for most people to say, spell, or even remember. All-Latin equivalents do not seem to exist, or to be worth trying to formulate.

The most extreme libertophiles are anarcho-libertarians. The most extreme libertophobes are wokels. Normal fascists are at least motivated, one supposes, by love of their own country, culture, etc., however libertophobic they are. Inverted fascists, as full wokels are, appear to be mainly motivated by spite and hatred. One can hardly seriously doubt this when, for instance, watching them screaming and swearing hysterically at a speaker (a “hate crime”, surely?) who has come to a university to explain and debate his non-woke opinions or theories to the society that invited him for this purpose. “Be kind” is an expression wokels love to use but never seem to abide by themselves. They cannot even be merely tolerant of liberty. But then flagrant hypocrisy is the other essential aspect of full wokeism.

Suppose that someone clearly has no particular fear or hatred of women, homosexuals, blacks, etc., (all the woke-privileged categories). He does, however, notice and respond to apparent differences about them but without in any way infringing their liberties. Then he cannot be a “misogynist”, “homophobe”, “racist”, etc. in any genuinely illiberal sense (as would, say, someone who sought to flout the liberties of people in these categories). So, when a wokel uses these pejorative terms it is usually really he who is simply being a libertophobe. Hence, it is useful to have this word to describe him correctly.

“Liberphobe”, by contrast, is sometimes used to mean “fear of liberals or liberalism”; again, in the modern sense. But people are right to fear and hate that ideological corruption of classical liberalism.