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What is a point of your political orientation you don't agree with at all?

By that I mean, if you, let's say, consider yourself or are considered a conservative, what is a point of conservative politics/ideologies you disagree with?
And for liberals as well, what is something you disagree with about liberal politics?

I've asked a similar question before about conservatives' most liberal- and liberals' most conservative viewpoints and although this one is slightly different, my answer will be the same:
I just don't understand why so many liberals, people who are all about equality, peace, freedom, women- and gay rights, etc. defend or even support an ideology like Islam, a religion that is basically against all of those things.
Now, before anyone comments something like "Not all Muslims"; dude, of course not all Muslims are equality- and freedom-hating terrorists, we'd be all dead by now if that was the case!
I do not have a problem with them personally, in fact, I know a lot of Muslims who really only want to live a peaceful life in freedom, but guess what? They shouldn't be supported because they're Muslims, they should be supported because they're [b]people[/b]!
I don't have a problem with them, I have a problem with the ideology they base their entire lives on and I refuse to defend and support [i]any[/i] ideology that encourages hatred and the killing of certain kinds of people.

Guess what, I've been called a hypocrite, a racist (even though religions aren't races) and even a Nazi for having this opinion while apart from that I really am a liberal, a leftist even. 🙄😥
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Tatsumi · 31-35, M
I don't know enough about Islam to say anything about that. But I will mention that Christianity isn't all flowers and rainbows, either. A lot of it is excessively derogatory towards women, as well. And the Old Testament. Oooooooh buddy, God is a gangster in it. One could easily pick from thousands of wretched lines enforcing the murder of children and raping and pillaging across the land. But they have that one little line that a lot of Christians stick to. "Oh, the Old Testament rules don't matter anymore." I imagine Muslims have the same thing. It's just dependent on their own lives. Delusions to enforce specific actions, based on their environment.

Anyway. I classify myself as a democratic socialist. I don't really disagree with much in it. I might disagree with a few entitlements like excessive unemployment benefits or something. But, the ideology is sound, imo.

However, with liberalism, also on the left, so sorta on my side, I very much disagree with "political correctness" and "tolerance". A lot of liberalism's *means* to attain equality is just...entirely counterproductive to that goal. Well. And a lot of shit on how liberalism wants to attain equality. It wants to maintain innately unequal institutons and infrastructure....yet attain equality. It's severely lacking.
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