masako wrote: ↑Tue Jul 09, 2024 5:29 am
Perhaps 'bigotry' would be a more fitting description.
not even that,
I think it's above all social and cultural...
there's a certain attachment to a common destiny carried by a common culture,
which constitutes a nation, much more than a people...
tomorrow all French people would be black
wouldn't change a thing
if they carried the values, the culture and the customs
that make up Frenchness...
bradrn wrote: ↑Tue Jul 09, 2024 6:05 am
I can assure you it
has been a problem, it’s just that it could be swept under the rug because people felt OK with ignoring the Jewish and Muslim minorities. Now, that’s no longer acceptable.
Also, as far as I’m aware, it’s only recently that ‘ban all public religious expression’ has become a mainstream opinion. There may have been a time when laïcité was just a matter of keeping religion out of politics — but now, it’s become something far more extreme and dangerous.
that's not true, eminent and responsible politicians have been of different religions, but not minorities,
since in France the concept of minority and community is a recent "invention",
the custom of discretion in this matter meant that they were not known or referenced as such...