I'm hoping this doesn't start a fight, I'm just curious what the political orientation is of this community. I grew up in a liberal (in the American sense) family, and I identify now as a socialist, though a lot of the liberalism I grew up in has stuck with me, like interest in LGBTQ and women's rights, environmentalism, etc. Wondering where people here land?
None of these things are liberalism. Liberalism is an ideology that believes in free markets and rights to property, it is the political ideology of capitalism. Socialism on the other hand is the fucking opposite. You can't be a socialist and a liberal at the same time, you are either or.
You are demonstrating complete and total political illiteracy and a very poor political education.
Furthermore, pretending that these traits are inherent to liberalism is just you doing propaganda for liberalism, because you are a liberal. The vast majority of communists are probably significantly better on most of these topics than you are.
Reminds me of pre-purge UK Labour Party being accused of being anti-semitic red-brown nazbols, but when polled they were by far the least anti-semitic party. Liberalism gets credit for being more progressive than communism despite communists/socialists being overall better on social issues when compared apples-to-apples. Probably because people think of early 20th century Communists when they think of Communism, and those people had some reactionary views (but less so than their contemporary Liberals did)
Socialists are always ahead of the curve on social issues, and Liberals are always closer to reactionaries/fascists than commies are. "Red Brown alliance" is an overhyped fake fear, the real terror always comes from a Blue Brown alliance.