City will obey secularity law: Plante
Valérie Plante says the city will not disobey the CAQ’s secularity law even while planning to register its disapproval. She also says the fuss about “ethnic cleansing” has derailed an important debate.
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Kate
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Hamza 05:50 on 2019-04-13 Permalink
Funny how comments about ethnic cleansing derails the debate but the shit that gets posted every day on Martineau and La Meute pages are totally normal.
Ian 18:15 on 2019-04-13 Permalink
Hey scapegoating is always easier than actually standing up for what you believe to be right.
FWIW a large part of the ethnic cleansing debate overlooks what was actually decided by the winning countries after WW2, the best way to keep folks from fighting is to send them back to their homelands based on their ethnicity regardless of how many centuries their people had lived wherever, you saw that with German ethnics, Slovak ethnics, and hey, even Israel.
When the winning side of world war frickin 2 openly figured the best way to prevent genocide was literally rounding up people and sending them to live in ethnic enclaves as the best solution to prevent war it’s not crazy to suggest that this form of ethnic cleansing (or whatever you want to call it) is a real trope within ethnic nationalism that runs in essential opposition to multiculturalism, the ostensible goal of Canadian culture. Let’s not forget that the CAQ is of the mind that multiculturalism is in essence a betrayal of Quebec’s identity.
Kate 09:09 on 2019-04-14 Permalink
Ian, I wasn’t so aware that this was a deliberate decision following WWII but reading the Wikipedia article on the breakup of Yugoslavia is informative. Having observed from afar the troubles in Ireland, the whole Balkan disaster and then Rwanda, it could be hard to see any virtues in monocultural nationalism, even if such a thing were seriously achievable in a globalized world.
Ian 18:26 on 2019-04-14 Permalink
Even the partition of India was meant to reduce conflict between Muslims and Hindus. In moving people from Hindu to Muslim regions there were many brutal attacks and the infamous “death trains”. 2 to 3 million people went missing during resettlement in the Punjab alone…. and before anyone starts in about Muslim violence again, it was Muslims that went missing, killed by Hindus.
Chris 20:56 on 2019-04-14 Permalink
Ian, Hindu ‘cow vigilantes’ often target Muslims. Another example of religious insanity.