Correct me if I'm wrong.
Afaik, liberalism ambiguously meant both advocacy for human rights and an economic system. To avoid this confusion, the economic system has been moved out as libertarianism.
For example, accessibility improvements of government buildings is a liberal movement.
Minimizing the control over capitalism is a libertarian movement.
There's also so called "liberals" which is not more than a hate speech. We are not "conservatives" or "liberals" in every topic.
By this helpfulprofessor.com image’s definition of libertarianism, private property is sacrosanct, so it is anathema to socialism.
Hang out in different circles and you’ll get wildly different meanings for liberalism, conservatism, and libertarianism.
In some circles, libertarianism advocates for the “night-watchman” capitalist state. In some other circles, libertarianism on its own is neither left nor right, because for them there is left-libertarianism and right-libertarianism.
It seems that you think people are using “liberal” as an slur, but we have a specific meaning in mind.
First sentence from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism :
Second paragraph from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_property :
So liberals, then, are capitalism stans.
This is in stark contrast to the first sentence from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism :
Who are “we”, and how is this related to “topics”?
I think what you linked is its old meaning. Now liberal is more likely about e.g. LGBTQ rights, than private property. At least, private property exists in socialism too. I can imagine a liberal socialism, where the economy is socialist, but it gives you freedom in speech, etc..
I guess I'm from a different circle with this meaning.
I think, a fully liberal person who is liberal in every topic, doesn't exist. Like killing people could also be a right. So "we" is the majority of the people.
Any socialist worth their salt considers liberalism to be the ideology of capitalism, and as I just showed, Wikipedia agrees. As does ProleWiki: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Liberalism
I think you may be conflating personal property with private property. I just showed you in Wikipedia’s definition for socialism that socialists are against private property, because it is very basis of capitalism.
How about this one?
source: https://www.britannica.com/question/How-does-classical-liberalism-differ-from-modern-liberalism
(You are right about private property, I meant personal property)