If you’re talking about just flipping left/right back, that’s not a big ask and not particularly hard to do.

I just assumed the current use of left/right was Americanised or something, considering how much of the English-speaking internet is American.

I’m fine admitting ignorance and I’m more than willing to learn and course-correct, but I’m not sure why you’re being petulant with me. If I was genuinely unwilling to learn anything and bullheaded, I imagine this type of conversation would just make me stubborn to change.

However, that’s just my experience when discussing something with people of a differing opinion. I generally find a calm and unemotional approach to be more beneficial for exploring ideas and perhaps changing views, especially so with conservatives, who consider progressives to be emotionally driven.

I get most of my news from Lemmy, but I welcome suggestions.

Probably just a spread of misinformation in that particular circle. The idea was that the meanings were literally inverted.

It could have possibly come from an older time in politics, or maybe started out malicious and just lost its edge.

I tend to be quite trusting, and I tend to refer to political views more as progressive/conservative rather than left/right, so I never really questioned where the idea came from.

My friends are very much progressive and prefer to vote for Labour or Green.

I suppose the people I’ve been talking to irl have mislead me then. I’ve been constantly corrected on it.

No, I mean left and right are literally reversed in British politics.

Progressives are right-wing and conservatives are left-wing specifically in Britain.

I think they’re referring to how Labour is right and Tories are left, unless I’m completely misreading it.