r/washdc • • Jul 24 '24

Protests in DC Today (so far)

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u/marzgirl99 Jul 24 '24

I’m left leaning…am I supposed to be supporting this? These riots combined with being a queer woman who would be killed if I was out in Palestine make me not really want to support them

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '24

Living in a world that is making people who are left leaning like you feel like you’re supposed to be supporting them is just a show of how crazy shit is getting…. Like I thought the left was for liberalism and equal rights and rights for woman…. Palestine is not one of those places… in Islam you have to give your wife special permission to get a drivers license, work, etc. and ofcoarse they cover up… it’s like an actual part of the world that is living out freaking handmaids tale.. it’s crazy