Re:What Houellebecq Learned from Huysmans
by throwitup on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @08:45AM
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In the UK you can be arrested for posting on Facebook that your beauty salon is 'no longer taking bookings from anyone from the Islamic faith'.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3320166/Police-arres...
Re:What Houellebecq Learned from Huysmans
by omginternets on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @11:51AM
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Criticizing a religion and discriminating on the basis of religion are two vastly different things.
Re:What Houellebecq Learned from Huysmans
by seszett on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @09:50AM
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Well, discrimination according to religion is illegal in the UK, isn't it?
Re:What Houellebecq Learned from Huysmans
by _delirium on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @01:32PM
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Also in most other western countries nowadays. In the U.S. it's been illegal since the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Historically one of the more common cases of discriminating based on religion was the prevalence of businesses with "no Jews" policies, but that was eventually banned.
Well, in the US if it hit a wrong nerve with someone you could lose your job -- even if you said it on your personal account. Heck, it has happened for far less offensive things.
And unless you name-check God every so often, whether Republican or Democrat, you ain't getting to be President. If God "talks to you" directly, even better.