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.

Comments

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

Oh hell. I hate knowing that people are that awful.

[misslynx.livejournal.com]

The worst thing about it is that this was someone who, in almost all other respects, is a totally cool and awesome person - very politically aware and normally very diligent about calling out racism, sexism, etc.

But it seems like her particular variety of militant atheism just acts as a huge ethical blind spot for her - as soon as religion is in the picture, any other ethical/political considerations fly out the window, and it becomes all about how religion (and, it seems, Islam in particular) is Teh Eeeevil and responsible for absolutely all the ills in the world always.

It's really frustrating because if she was just awful in general I could just write her off, but when someone is usually a good person but just has one particular area of awfulness it's harder to know how to handle it.