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I don’t really understand why Western nations are expected to be progressive on gender and racial equality whereas so many people would never expect certain Muslim countries to do the same because “it’s just their religious beliefs”
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Anonymous 21h

Like sorry but your religious beliefs are not a justification for women having fewer rights than most animals in your country

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Anonymous 21h

I mean I think they’re talked about differently because in many of those countries we (the cia) worked hard to undermine secular leaders and propped up Islamist extremists. So we’re sort of to blame for their lack of progressiveness. Also it’s not purely about religious beliefs, it’s mostly corrupt misogynists who just want to leverage religion for power like the American right does

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Anonymous 20h

I don’t give any misogynistic conservative religious groups a pass.

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Anonymous 21h

Leftists love the “noble savage” mindset

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