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TOPIC: Burka/Niqab in France
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Re:Burka/Niqab in France 12 Years, 7 Months ago
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It's a tricky problem. All of the great rights-based ideologies deriving from the 18th century - French liberty, American independence and feminism - were nurtured by the Enlightenment belief that reason delivers wisdom, and if you think rationally you'll all agree on what is right and wrong. So the moral power of these movements came from their conviction that what they said was true for all people in all places at all times. And Amnesty, liberalism, feminism etc still speak and act with that assumption of universal moral authority today. Yet they do so now in a world where we are also told to respect difference, diversity and subjectivity. So, frankly, the great old liberal ideology is in a bit of a pickle. The French are being more consistent, logical and, perhaps, honest in taking the position they've taken - but they're also more obviously compromised by the modern inclination towards relativism. Personally, on women's rights, I am happily old-fashioned and will remain a universalist - I'm not going to excuse signs of patriarchy by pretending it's a fashion statement.
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