https://pando.com/2015/01/13/charlie-hebdo-unmournable-frenchies/ … laïcité is a legitimate cultural ideal, I know as an anglo you think everyone should have the same culture as you, but newsflash, the French have different values than you.
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If you don't see any connection whatsoever between previous aggressive expressions of laïcité and the borderline-fascist suppression of Islam Macron is doing now, I don't know what to say
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Replying to @arthur_affect @faronfish and
The idea that laïcité/secularism remains the same thing and remians admirable whether directed against a majority or minority religious practice is obviously a straight-line highway to this kind of oppression
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Yes, and it's bad
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Replying to @arthur_affect @faronfish and
This may be true but the ID stuff- aren’t those simply neutral laws of general applicability where the states interests SHOULD outweigh individual religious liberty.
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Replying to @chrijohnso @arthur_affect and
That would be the argument for upholding them under US precedent, specifically Employment Division v. Smith - obviously, not applicable in France. There's a case that they're pretextual (a pretty good one!) and even if technically legal, it doesn't really affect the substance.
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Replying to @faronfish @mssilverstein and
The principle that passing supposedly universal laws that clearly have the intent of suppressing a particular minority is discrimination is a correct principle, however
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Long before the United States existed this was a common excuse for European antisemitism, within the US it was used not only to suppress the Jewish population but Catholics, Black people, Asian immigrants, etc.
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