That isn't what he said and you damn well know it! He compared them to letterboxes and bank robbers and said he wouldn't act in their interest as MP because if the way they were dressed. So if you'd like to address reality, let us know.https://twitter.com/JuliaHB1/status/1026458755817504768 …
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Horrendously insensitive for you to address the issue in this way. If debating men forcing women to wear the burka I might agree but assuming that they're being forced to in the UK is fairly prejudiced in itself. Why do you need to be able to see their face to represent them?
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Let's consider where a burka ban leads shall we. Here's an image from France. Three male police officers demanding that a woman take off items of her clothing when she has committed no crime. How is that liberally defensible? https://twitter.com/clfinnecy/status/1026464205963182081/photo/1pic.twitter.com/Ui12MofQxp pic.twitter.com/rPchG2xxSf
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That photo was a set up.
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Fake news? Is that all you've got? Even if it were a set it still serves as useful example of why we should be very concerned when governments start dictating what women can and can't wear.
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That's equally true when we tell women what they can't wear as it is when we tell them what they must wear. If you don't approve of the latter, how can you approve of the former?
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Placing some limits on what both men and women can wear in public because of the effect they have on other people isn’t the same as “telling women what to wear”. All rights conflict with other people’s rights eventually. It’s a balancing act.
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So where do you stop? Who decides what is acceptable?
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Tricky question this one. On the one hand I’m opposed to anyone being told they can’t wear something (especially by Boris, who looks like a drunken toddler dressed in his grandad’s clothes) 1/
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On the other hand. How can we make the claim that this is a woman’s choice, when that choice is predicated on decades of conditioning and cultural oppression. On those terms it sounds suspiciously similar to abuse.
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Now that, the philosophical perspective of 'is it really a free choice when your membership of your family and community is potentially dependent on compliance' is a reasonable discussion. I think you'd be surprised at the range of perspective offered by women who wear burkas.
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But it's one that needs to approached respectfully and with an open mind.
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Hope he got her (his?) best side.
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Look back at Afghanistan in the 1970s (and Iran) and you’ll see that women were liberated and rarely forced by men to wear such apparel. Those who wear them today are either forced to do so, and do so out of fear, or they are subservient without question. Which is it?
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She has FBPE in her name, just walk away

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