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Originally Posted by Barkingturtle
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"Thoughtcrime?"
Seriously, dude? I mean, there's simply no such fucking thing in our advanced, superior culture. No one is going to prison for thoughtcrime. If they were, though, I bet they'd be converting to Islam.
But honestly, I don't imagine the French are going to start evicting Muslims or gassing them or whatever it is people think they should do. I mean, they're proud of their global reputation, and a city doesn't become recognized as a cultural mecca by embracing xenophobia.
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It's not a dichotomy between multiculturalism and violent fascism. It's not like because I'm not a cultural relativist I don't respect that they are human beings who simply have different beliefs than me. It's one thing to allow immigration into your country with the firm expectation that they endeavor to become French. It's another to abolish your borders and allow millions of foreigners to enter your country and establish totally un-managed, segregated, parallel societies full of people who, instead of changing to adapt to their new host culture, support things like Sharia law. And it's not a simple issue. Part of what maintains the gulf between the immigrant community and the native French is racism and bigotry, so you get stuff like this in an attempt to make people colorblind and ease integration, even though cultural incompatibility (think fundamentalist Muslim vs. Atheist) creates a much larger gulf between two individuals than race ever could:
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But then you also have a culture that isn't particularly amenable to assimilation. So it's tough. However, multiculturalism is something that makes approaching the challenges posed by this situation completely impossible.