Liberal democratic values can themselves cultivate routine exclusion of perceived failures

Evidence

A democratic and liberal ethos can actually cultivate social practices, institutions, societal systems that, routinely, exclude a certain type of people – those who are perceived as inadequate, failures, according to the motivational and moral schemes of liberal democracies. In certain conditions, the liberal, progressive ethos of liberal democracies can succumb to dogmatism, to a stance that awards freedom of choice, freedom of movement, etc., to some but refuses it to others. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 105

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Myrdal’s American dilemma thesis and broader critiques of liberalism’s internal contradictions as exclusionary.
• DEEPTHINKING: This is a paradigm-level inversion of the standard progressive belief that liberal values erode intolerance; the claim that liberal ethos itself generates exclusion of ‘failures’ resists easy summary.

Related

• Democratic liberal values sometimes fail to erode entrenched intolerance (similarity 0.81)