Again people need to understand the framing of this issue is not that we are getting on an 18-year-old's case for being shitty in public. We are getting on France's case for taking it as a cause celebre that requires debate on what the law should be, that is it's pretty transparently there to manufacture colonialism.
The thing is, if religions are mere ideologies, then so are nation-states. This cuts both ways.
even by mutekis usual standards, this is some galaxy brain doge level wha-huh?
I'm not even sure what he is trying to say to be honest.
from the smug tone they obviously think they're dropping an unironic checkmate atheists, but their argument makes literally zero fucking sense.
if anyone was actually questioning if this girl is actually french, and to what extent 'being french' is an ideology, most people would say yeah, nationalism is to some degree a construct; on a scale someone would probably consider themselves (for example)
of moroccan descent - a parisian - french - a european - a westerner - an earthling simultaneously, but lean into one or another depending on the situation and the resolution needed.
But nobodies making that fucking argument.
If we're talking
ideologies, people should be asking "
To what extent is demanding a teenage lesbians death a key tenet of my faith" and if its
not a key tenet, then
why the fuck are you defending those who do hold that as a core belief of their identity?
