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Barbie screening cancelled in Paris after anti-LGBTQ+ backlash (www.thepinknews.com)

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[+] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world -10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Look, I'm not going to get into whether or not immigration should be restricted but this is a direct consequence of immigrants from the Arab world bringing their extremely socially conservative values to Paris. I feel like everyone in this thread and the article is tiptoeing around that fact.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How about outright denying it? Is that "tiptoeing around it"?

Although he described the opponents as exerting “obscurantism and fundamentalism” and their “totally fallacious” views on the film promoting same-sex relationships and its views on women, Sarrabeyrouse denounced “with even greater firmness the political exploitation, speculation and racist Islamophobic hatred that has been pouring out over the past 24 hours from the right and the far right”.

“The city’s social media and my own are flooded with insulting, racist and especially Islamophobic messages. The words of today’s Minister of the Interior will not extinguish this flame of racist hatred, unleashed without any limits, of which I am the target as much as my population,” he said

[–] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

??? It was Muslim youths though?

[Muslim youths shut down Barbie screening for ‘promoting homosexuality’] (https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/barbie-screening-paris-cancelled-muslim-protests-lpl7cm0lb)

"Aurore Bergé, minister for gender equality, said that the incident was “not insignificant” because it comes in the context of what the government sees as a spreading campaign by hardline Muslims to influence social behaviour in districts with immigrant populations. France must be alert to “these attempts to infiltrate”, Bergé said. “They must be denounced systematically for what they are.” "