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Thread: In London, who are the people protesting against President Trump?

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    Quote Originally Posted by World's End Stella View Post
    Not sure if it ever made it over here, but when I worked in Toronto in the early 90s feminists asked all men to wear pink ribbons on their suit jackets as a demonstration of their support for the elimination of violence committed by men against women.

    I refused to participate for obvious reasons. I see very little difference between that and plastering anti-terrorism posters all over predominantly Muslim areas, as an example.
    You're comparing an empty gesture to a practical measure, though. Would I wear a pink ribbon? No. Would I do everything in my power to ensure an actual or potential rapist was stopped? Absolutely. Would I feel that the existence of a rapist stigmatised me as a man? Absolutely not.
    I'm afraid that, as I've said, in the analogous situation, the same cannot be said about muslims, radicalisation and terror.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
    You're comparing an empty gesture to a practical measure, though. Would I wear a pink ribbon? No. Would I do everything in my power to ensure an actual or potential rapist was stopped? Absolutely. Would I feel that the existence of a rapist stigmatised me as a man? Absolutely not.
    I'm afraid that, as I've said, in the analogous situation, the same cannot be said about muslims, radicalisation and terror.
    Yes, but the concept is the same. Identifying a cross section of our society and publicly focusing on them as needing to be part of the solution to a problem will necessarily stigmatise that cross-section of our society.

    And as I've said, I'm not completely opposed to it, I just think it's a measure of last resort and we need to be very careful with that approach.

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