A debate is erupting around Islamic face coverings in Finland’s educational institutions.

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  • Dasus@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    It’s not integration when you demand that your kid can’t eat in the same room as others or that they won’t participate in PE.

    Religious kids get driven to other schools, with taxis, payed for by the state, in order to be able to practice their religion and culture. There and back.

    But yeah, keep pretending in bad faith as if this is some authoritarian culture denying bullshit. It’s not like I’ve said it several times now, so you surely won’t seem at all ridiculous by obtusely continuing it. ^/s

    Just because a thing doesn’t have “a discernable point…” TO YOU, doesn’t mean it doesn’t have at all. Or do you think you’re literally all-knowing?

    • Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com
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      2 days ago

      Just because a thing doesn’t have “a discernable point…” TO YOU, doesn’t mean it doesn’t have at all

      Show me the fucking data then you muppet. Kids in burqa in school is such a high-profile problem that it needs legislative action, surely there must be a mountain of data documenting the harm they do, and how prohibiting burqas in school makes that harm go away.

      Or are you saying we shouldn’t legislate based on data ? Dicks out, pure vibe, and if someone disagrees you just tell them they don’t get it or maybe they think they’re literally all-knowing. Jesus fucking christ man.

      • Dasus@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        Show me the fucking data then you muppet

        Oh, please elaborate. What data specifically are you asking for? No vague strawmen, but an actual argument and a specific datapoint that is something that is measurable?

        You’re arguing in bad faith to begin with, and then you go on and ignore all the arguments put to you. You talk about integration, but then instead of actually integrating, you advocate for segregation of the sexes and religions by ignoring the points that you’d have to actually build separate facilities for burka wearing girls to eat and they wouldn’t participate in PE or at least shower afterwards, which would be unhygienic.

        It’s downright obvious you’re trolling as hard you can to get me to say “we won’t accept blabla islam blabla”, but we do. Integration is always a compromise, and the compromise some cultures (which happen to also be majority muslim) have had to make is for instance stopping the genital mutilation of girls. That’s just illegal here, no matter what culture you come from. Sorry, but that’s unacceptable, no matter what you believe in. Burkas and Niqabs aren’t, but when it comes to education in Finnish schools, afraid there’s no room for them, for very practical reasons.

        Ramadan is accommodated, because not eating doesn’t require a separate space be built. But some veiled space where girls can be protected from the lusty eyes of… checks notes… elementary school aged boys? Nah.

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            1 day ago

            You literally ignore every other word from my comment saying that you’re ignoring everything, except the part where I say it’s obvious you’re trolling [because you’re constantly ignoring the actual points made].

            You don’t see the irony in your reply which ignores >98% of my reply?