jaselle comments on Quebec to ban public prayer in sweeping new secularism law

submitted 11 months ago by kogito@lemmy.world to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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[–] jaselle@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That's very fair yes. But how can you tell those who are anti-religion for racist reasons from those who are for not?

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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

There are two hazards in our discussion:

I prioritize hazard 1 as having a lower consequence than hazard 2.

In other words, I care much more about eradicating systemic racism than the hurt feelings of someone whose motives are misunderstood.

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[–] jaselle@lemmy.ca 1 point 11 months ago

OK that's a good argument. It's perhaps a flaw of the word "racist" that it can include systemic racism, when it connotes individual racism.

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