Go home Quebec, you're drunk

[sabotabby]

It's a sad and strange day when I agree with anything that comes out of Jason Kenney's mouth, but broken clocks, twice a day, etc. Quebec's proposed charter of values that will ban public servants from wearing any religious symbol (but really we mean Muslim religious symbols) is so completely batshit insane that I'm amazed it got this far.

I wonder what even constitutes a religious symbol. I mean, I used to wear ankhs and pentacles and inverted crosses, not out of any religious conviction but because I was Goth As Fuck. In Montreal, would a Habs jersey count? I mean, it's really unclear. Also racist. And loopy.

There is a certain type of New Atheism that's essentially a continuation of White Man's Burden by other means. This is its exemplar.

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The PQ stopped being a social-democratic party the minute Lucien Bouchard became its leader. Bernard Landry followed along the same way, but then Marois pulled a good old Liberal move by campaigning strongly on the left, and people ate it up because she was from the old socdem guard, and she wore the red square. But times have changed, and so has the PQ, which put away the red squares shortly after they got elected.

[sabotabby]

This surprises me not a bit.