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Originally Posted by bryantm3
i know a lot of the right over here in the states are whining about socialism, but the europeans are moving way too close to authoritarianism
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While it achieved broad cross-party support in France, it's interesting to note that the calls to ban it are coming more strongly from the right than the left, both there and here, despite the fact that it's so often the left that has the reputation for 'nanny state-ism' (no surprise to those who recognize that authoritarianism and socialism are two different concepts).
And from this, back to my questioning of motives - if Conservative MP
Philip Hollobone has a reputation for championing women's rights or campaignign for secularism, I must have missed it.
The truth is, for a large part this is being fuelled by the typically British xenophobic, illiberal and pompous attitude of "When in Rome..." - by mean-spiritedness and tribalism. But very few in the wider public debate dares to acknowledge this (ironically ...for fear of causing offence to mean-spirited sour-faced bores! But of course we don't call it political correctness when dodging offence occurs that way round, do we?)