Ok that's interesting. But I don't see how trying to stop parents from forcing hijab on their children is racist in any way? Especially when this is a thing that many leftists and feminists who were born as muslim have been fighting for decades.
I agreed that a hijab ban is counterproductive and achieves nothing. I was advocating for making the act of forcing hijab on children a form of child abuse.
However framed, I would still personally view a mandate of that nature as motivated by anti-immigrant racism in a Swiss context. It's tough because I do see the reasoning, as with the handshake drama, but as with that, the racist elements that come out of the woodwork in support of these nominally 'feminist' points quickly shut out the well-intentioned. Its a matter of bad bedfellows: the Swiss nationalists who pump this shit, like the French or Dutch ones (and I assume elsewhere in Europe) are vile conservative little worms, and the thin figleaf of feminism quickly falls away when you look at their other priorities. The Swiss party responsible for this is literally a christian nationalist party.
I think I understand what you are saying, that this will increase anti-muslim sentiments and justify more prejudice towards muslims. Though at the same time I feel some sort of protection must exist to stop this from happening, but I am perhaps not the right person to propose what form that protection should take since I have little knowledge regarding the plight of muslims in western countries.
Ok that's interesting. But I don't see how trying to stop parents from forcing hijab on their children is racist in any way? Especially when this is a thing that many leftists and feminists who were born as muslim have been fighting for decades.
I agreed that a hijab ban is counterproductive and achieves nothing. I was advocating for making the act of forcing hijab on children a form of child abuse.
However framed, I would still personally view a mandate of that nature as motivated by anti-immigrant racism in a Swiss context. It's tough because I do see the reasoning, as with the handshake drama, but as with that, the racist elements that come out of the woodwork in support of these nominally 'feminist' points quickly shut out the well-intentioned. Its a matter of bad bedfellows: the Swiss nationalists who pump this shit, like the French or Dutch ones (and I assume elsewhere in Europe) are vile conservative little worms, and the thin figleaf of feminism quickly falls away when you look at their other priorities. The Swiss party responsible for this is literally a christian nationalist party.
I think I understand what you are saying, that this will increase anti-muslim sentiments and justify more prejudice towards muslims. Though at the same time I feel some sort of protection must exist to stop this from happening, but I am perhaps not the right person to propose what form that protection should take since I have little knowledge regarding the plight of muslims in western countries.