what does being a "liberal" really meant?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism

here's a wiki, but has its lost its true meaning in today's society? why silence freedom of speech when its about speaking one's mind?

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JP1119 · 36-40, M

I'm a liberal, and I'm all in favor of free speech; however, money does not equal speech, otherwise the rich get a much larger voice than the poor and middle class. What makes you think liberals are against free speech?

quinnVneck · 31-35, F

@JP1119: SJWs, feminists, maybe even the Black Lives Matter movement, etc...and oh Political correctness in the books and the "extreme sensitivity" of the left wing towards anything that might offend them, even the sight of female protagonists in video games. i mean no offense but liberalism in today's society kind of got its mean sort of displaced... i also recently saw a video that pretty much made a lot of right wing cringe: the classroom thing that states "might be future of education" where Privilege points are rewarded to the "outcast" [more of special snowflake]

this new form of liberalism is clouding the true meaning of being liberal and i certainly am against anything totalitarian in nature

quinnVneck · 31-35, F

@JP1119: but my answer may not prove to be enough...try looking @puck61's answer down below