I was trying to figure out why liberals support Palestine over Israel. It doesn't make much sense to support a violent tyrannical theocracy over a liberal democracy, but my best guess is that liberals agree with tyrannical Muslim theocracies that:
1. women should have to be second class citizens and obey men - returning women back to property status is like peak feminism!
2. Killing gays should be normalized - because while they make a handy political prop, why should liberals care if a few get murdered amiright?
3. Religious dictatorship is preferable to secular democracy - turns out liberals are ok with the priest being the dictator who runs the country - as long as that priest isn't of the Christian or Jewish faith.
4. Free speech is bad: liberals keep drifting towards being anti-free speech, so it probably feels good to just embrace a place where talking smack on the governing authorities can straight up get you killed.
5. Child exploitation: normalizing recruitment or the use of children for terrorism because look its just a standard deviation or two from abortion so why not.
6. Honor killings: because when "honor" justifies violence against women for perceived slights how could that be a bad thing? (imagine a women offends you on a train so you just stab her to death and then go about your business - the kind of thing liberals don't seem to mind at all)
7. Apostasy deserves the death penalty: Religious freedom is a liberal cornerstone, yet cheering for places where leaving Islam can get you killed is totally fine. Because nothing says "live and let live" like "convert or perish."
8. Corruption and kleptocracy are anti-capitalist: Liberals hate crony capitalism, but they adore wealthy leaders who siphon aid money into Swiss banks while their people suffer. It's redistribution—of wealth to the rich elite!
9. Suppressing women's education advances feminism: backing places where girls' schools are bombed or restricted is ironic genius. Who needs books when they have veils and obedience?
10. Terror tactics: killing innocent senior citizens, children, women and raping women are all acceptable - as long as they are expressions of your cause.
I'm sure I've missed some other values that are shared between liberals and Palestine/Muslim theocracy, so please feel free to add your own to the list!
whats wrong with killing gays, should be illegal. if you don't like me that means i feel safer, gays just project their own insecurities in other people... im not gay you're gay attitudes.
Women should have equal rights as men though.
Freedom of religion should be fine so long as you're not using you're religion to harm other's, i.e. 9/11 fueled attacks.
idk about the killing thing my mother says killing people is fine but murdering them is terrible, i disagree with her 100% killing people is no less of a sin or crime as murdering someone is.
This post was edited by TastyTaste on Sep 10 2025 09:33am