Map of countries with bans: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Burka_ban_world_map.svg/1024px-Burka_ban_world_map.svg.png

  • spectre [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Sorry to be a bit terse, but enforcing cultural behaviors sounds like idealism and a wide road to racism to me.

    To address the sexist culture around the burqa with a ban is just treating the symptom, something that I would expect from liberals, but I would hope that most of us on the Left would have a deeper analysis. Changing the economic and legal relationships that enforce patriarchy will do more to liberate women, and the burqua will fade away (most likely, but at least it'll be a free choice) over time as women will more easily be able to leave a conservative/patriarchal culture if they so choose. This avoids replacing sexism with racism.