RE: Banning face coverings
August 17, 2018 at 7:47 pm
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2018 at 7:49 pm by SteelCurtain.)
Yeah, in the US, banning an expression of religion would be simply unconstitutional. I would not support that at all.
I don't think there is a situation where banning them in any context would make anyone safer. It may make people feel less uncomfortable, but you'd have to show me something that would prove something like that.
I don't like them and I think they're a part of a system of oppression. But if it doesn't hurt others and women aren't required to wear them I don't see any good reason to outlaw them.
EDIT: to be clear---the reason France and Denmark ban face coverings is because of xenophobia---to deter immigration. Europe is in the middle of an immigration crisis, and populism responds predictably.
I don't think there is a situation where banning them in any context would make anyone safer. It may make people feel less uncomfortable, but you'd have to show me something that would prove something like that.
I don't like them and I think they're a part of a system of oppression. But if it doesn't hurt others and women aren't required to wear them I don't see any good reason to outlaw them.
EDIT: to be clear---the reason France and Denmark ban face coverings is because of xenophobia---to deter immigration. Europe is in the middle of an immigration crisis, and populism responds predictably.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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