this is conservative and reactionary, and if we're going to have this debate on these terms, i am not going to take their side. this is not an attack on minority rights, but an attempt to remove certain violent systems of oppressive thinking from wielding power over people that are actually vulnerable.

nothing in the bill attacks anybody's rights to expression, it merely removes the ability to brandish religious ideology as a weapon over others.

the line that amnesty is taking, here, is right out of orwell.

the main idea of the ban is forward-thinking and progressive - it is a step forward and should be applauded.

the problem is that it is just that little bit too broad, and they aren't allowing the judiciary to clean it up. it also continues a bad legal precedent in quebec that really needs to be reversed.

the reactionaries will protest this until they die, but, in the long run, we will look back on this as trailblazing and ahead of it's time: the bill is the future, and i invite you to embrace it.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2019/03/29/groups-say-quebec-bill-on-religious-symbols-violates-minority-rights.html