{"id":16191,"date":"2012-07-25T09:56:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T14:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=16191"},"modified":"2012-07-25T09:56:59","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T14:56:59","slug":"chris-selley-on-the-burkad-bottles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/07\/25\/chris-selley-on-the-burkad-bottles\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Selley on the burka&#8217;d bottles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up from yesterday&#8217;s amusing <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/07\/24\/lcbo-sells-booze-to-underaged-teen-in-a-burka\/\" target=\"_blank\">story<\/a> about the <em>Sun News<\/em> stunt of dressing an underaged teen in a burka and successfully buying booze at the LCBO, <a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2012\/07\/25\/chris-selley-the-lcbo-and-burkas-getting-a-message-in-a-bottle\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Selley<\/a> gets to the real reason the stunt worked:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Debates about face coverings in this country almost always boil down to policy, not people. Should people wearing burkas have to unveil to vote? We went pretty crazy about that issue, a while back, and probably will some day again (especially if <em>Sun News<\/em> has anything to say about it). Should Quebecers have to unveil to take a government-run French class? Quebec went a bit crazy about that, and eventually said yes. What about to board an airplane, or to get a driver\u2019s license? Controversies along these lines pop up every now and again and get thrown into the coliseum of Canadian debate, where the right\u2019s and the left\u2019s gladiators battle it out.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, off to the side, you\u2019ll usually find representatives of the miniscule number of Canadian women who actually wear burkas explaining that they have no problem unveiling in circumstances where it is logically required. But they\u2019re largely ignored, because the left wants to fight for a woman\u2019s right to wear the veil (even if she doesn\u2019t feel it\u2019s being impinged upon) while the right wants to take that right away (on grounds of \u201cliberating\u201d Muslim women).<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>Again, this wasn\u2019t the <em>Sun<\/em>\u2019s angle. But it seems reasonable to speculate that those LCBO clerks looked at the veiled customer, realized what they ought to do, and didn\u2019t do it for fear of winding up in their supervisor\u2019s office, the newspaper or some kind of human rights court. That\u2019s not healthy at all, and there\u2019s no point blaming Muslim immigrants for it. In pursuing a harmonious, egalitarian, rights-conscious society, longer-established Canadians may have created a fear of making reasonable requests of fellow citizens who aren\u2019t superficially \u201clike\u201d us. That drives people apart, not together. It perpetuates precisely the sort of nonsensical backlash that the <em>Sun<\/em>\u2019s critics worry about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up from yesterday&#8217;s amusing story about the Sun News stunt of dressing an underaged teen in a burka and successfully buying booze at the LCBO, Chris Selley gets to the real reason the stunt worked: Debates about face coverings in this country almost always boil down to policy, not people. 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