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Was the ACLU not liberal? Was the Atheist movement not liberal? Was not Academia liberal? Was Blue Tribe culture, in the broadest sense across the whole western world not Liberal?
Functional society requires proselytization and interference in other groups' values systems. These are not options, they are going to happen a lot if you want human cooperation at any appreciable scale.
Liberalism is not a stable solution, because it requires values coherence to exist at all, while actively generating values-divergence. It eats itself. The history of the last few decades has been a very obvious, very public example of exactly how it eats itself. Conformity is necessary when you pack people in together like sardines, and that conformity has to be imposed even if people don't want it. And so either it is enforced, or society fissions along innumerable fault-lines into subgroups capable of doing so.
A common understanding over what it means to "keep to your own community", or what "violence" is, requires exactly the sort of enforcement of conformity you are claiming is unnecessary. It is certainly true that if men were angels, government would be unnecessary, but men are, observably, not angels, and government is very obviously necessary. People will not keep to themselves. People will not leave the other alone. We cannot now maintain consensus on whether we should tolerate drawings of the Prophet Mohammed or saying the N-word; we cannot even agree on what murder is or how to deal with it, much less shrug at endemic slave trading and mass human sacrifice and the systematic rape or mutilation of children, to name a few cultural peculiarities that tend to corrode "keep to your own community" ideals.
Because humans need order. Not want it, not prefer it, need it, and on an extremely fundamental level. And they don't just need a little bubble of it surrounding their immediate person, they need it out to the horizon with a uniformity that allows them to imagine it stretching to infinity.
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