They'll learn soon, I'm sure. At least in the UK, the Sikh community is extremely diligent and litigious in protecting its rights as a very visible ethno-religious minority,
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HOAs are one of those ridiculously stupid ideas that result from Americans being so averse to the concept of government that they'd rather live in fascist fiefdoms, as long as they're privately owned.Olympia woman facing fines over ‘Black Lives Matter’ sign inside her home
Shirley Pavao’s homeowners association called a Black Lives Matter sign a violation of the Lost Lake Resort community policy. However, she said she has become a target of a policy that is not legal.
They are filled with bored retirees who have nothing better to do. I'd never live in one... and this is especially outrageous. A lot of this also comes from the conservative media trying so hard to convince people BLM is a terrorist organization.
As usual, in the United States, these things have their roots in redlining, racism and white flight.
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It's also very intellectually lazy to believe that government or governments are some hivemind... It's a ton of different groups with different agendas. I'm getting more and more impatient with people who believe there is any particular agenda. People with that absurd belief often seem poorly educated and bigoted.
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French people tend to explain it in terms of historical tensions between the French Republics and the Catholic Church, which is doubtless part of it, but the French philosophes like Voltaire and Diderot, the founders of the Enlightenment, were also very antisemitic, since they saw Jews as a group who deliberately separated themselves from the wider society, and who rejected Enlightenment values because they insisted on clinging to their irrational religious beliefs. They were perfectly willing to accept Jews as full citizens of France, but only if they gave up everything that made them distinctively Jewish.
