Liberté, égalité, fraternité?

[yami_no_hoshi]

French Senate bans burka
Law to take effect in 6 months

The Associated Press

The French Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday for a bill banning the burka-style Islamic veil everywhere from post offices to streets, a move that affects only a tiny minority of the country's Muslim women but has significant symbolic repercussions.
The Senate voted

Comments

[saramiskismet]

You REALLY want the trophy for Best Nation Evers, don'tcha?

[yami_no_hoshi]

and if you read the lovely comments on this story on CBC.ca, you'll find plenty of Canadians who are applauding France and wishing Canada "had the balls to do this."

[poetic_pixie_13]

I'm not at all surprised. This goddamned country. The racists here and just more polite about it, so you're lulled into a false sense of security and then BAM!

[yami_no_hoshi]

Exactly. And people don't like to talk about racism up here because so many of us seem to think that it doesn't exist in Canada. So it gets swept under the rug.

[hotcoffeems]

Well, yeah, and don't forget Quebec's take on this.

[yami_no_hoshi]

yup, Quebec got the ball rolling.

[omgangiepants]

Quebec fails at pretty much everything tbh.

[yami_no_hoshi]

that's true too, I keep seeing familiar usernames. I don't even know why I bother reading the comments anyway.

[rex_dart]

You're seriously telling marginalized people who are currently the victims of massive amounts of xenophobia and violence in the United States to be grateful?

[yami_no_hoshi]

you always have the perfect .gifs for any situation.

[rex_dart]

That's the problem with those gays and POC and religious minorities and women; no matter how many concessions you make, they're all so damn hung up on this whole being treated like a human being thing! Thanks for explaining that to us! You are such a great thinker!

[rex_dart]

People who are unhappy in the US should remember that it could be worse and stop being ungrateful? In response to a post about Islamophobia? Who the fuck do you think you're talking about? Because it's not the straight white cisgendered Christian men.