What does 'politically progressive' mean...

[Chavster]

...and how can an apartment building be politically anything? Its just a pile of bricks



In 1982, Jobs bought an apartment in The San Remo, an apartment building in New York City with a politically progressive reputation, where Demi Moore, Steven Spielberg, Steve Martin, and Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, daughter of Rita Hayworth, also had apartments. With the help of I.M. Pei, Jobs spent years renovating his apartment in the top two floors of the building's north tower, only to sell it almost two decades later to U2 singer Bono. Jobs had never moved in.



Politically progressive = full of rich people?

[MikeM]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy

[Razor X]

It means liberal.

[Chavster]

And liberal means what in this respect, free thinking, open, etc?

[CraftyGuy]

 

[Chavster]

[tomgallagher]

WTF.

[Chavster]

 

Well it has to mean something... do they mean the people that live in the building are politically progressive (whatever that means)..?

[tomgallagher]

True. I don't think I have ever heard that phrase quite put that way before. Probably means very liberal/left wing/save the whales/hug a tree sort of thing.

[Chavster]

I just spoke to a friend of mine at the BBC and she doesnt know what it means either. She said to ask one of my American friends

[Laser Man]

Means generally to the left on political issues like environmental protection and social issues like healthcare and wages.  Progressives believe the government should play a role in making society better and more equal. 

[Chavster]

Ok, thanks So really that sentence on Wikipedia was referring to the people living in the building, and not to the actual bricks and mortar building itself. Thats what was confusing me, along with the term itself, because I'd never heard that term before.

[Mikekoz13]

Politically progressive is what liberals call themselves when they don't want to admit that they are indeed liberals.

[Chavster]

Ok well if Im honest, if someone were to say to me 'Im a liberal' or 'Im a conservative', then that goes right over my head and I would have no idea what they're trying to say.

Anyway, whether its 'liberal' or 'conservative' or 'transsexual' or 'agnostic' or whatever, I dont believe in labels because I think every person has viewpoints that cross boundaries, so thats probably why I dont know what those terms actually mean.

Thank you all for explaining it to me though

[Sly Red]

Politically progressive is what liberals call themselves when they don't want to admit that they are indeed liberals.

<---- Big ol' Lefty Liberal.