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Xenophobia is a loaded term. There could be any number of reasons why they're voting against those things. And so what if they dislike certain foreign cultures?
by zo1 6y ago
Xenophobia is a loaded term. There could be any number of reasons why they're voting against those things. And so what if they dislike certain foreign cultures? It's their country, and they can accept who they want, or not.
Or is Democracy suddenly not okay if the will of the people is misaligned with the "greater" society's views? Which, I would also argue, isn't conclusively in the camp that "xenophobia = bad". If anything, it's held by a minority of countries, and even then, not shared by all in those countries. But of course, xenophobia is a loaded term, so we could be talking about completely different things that fall under that umbrella.
- DetroitThrow 6y ago>And so what if they dislike certain foreign cultures? It's their country, and they can accept who they want, or not. Sure, but they are what we define as unambiguously xenophobic policies, even if it is a broad term which can include much more than that and were democratically enacted. Whether xenophobia is bad is another story - I'm not really sure anyone would find much insight from a discussion about it.
- nec4b 6y agoI'm very much against genital mutilation as is practiced in some muslim countries and support bans against such practices in the west. Does that make me a xenophobe?
- tpush 6y agoNo, it doesn't. One can oppose (religiously motivated or not) genital mutilation on purely humanistic grounds, completely divorced from any religious concerns. Banning building minarets has no such justification; just blatant xenophobia.
- nec4b 6y agoI guess where you come from all building codes are blatant xenophobia, because there can't possible any other reason as fear from stranger to disallow some buildings.
- tpush 6y agoThe point isn't that every banning of a style of building is xenophobia, but that in this particular instance it is. Making 'can't build minarets' part of your constitution isn't some local law building code thing; it's motivated by xenophobia.
- slg 6y ago>Or is Democracy suddenly not okay if the will of the people is misaligned with the "greater" society's views? Yes exactly this. One of Democracy's greatest flaws is that is is often misaligned with the greater good. Almost every example of expanded civil rights that have occurred in recent memory was wildly unpopular at one point and was delayed by democratic mob rule until persistent effort was able to eventually turn the tide of public opinion.