Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
Now a French journalist called Éric Zemmour is being tormented by the establishment in a sinister witch-hunt for speaking the truth. On March 6 Zemmour said on a Canal+ talkshow, Salut les terriens, that “French immigrants were more closely monitored than other Frenchmen because most of the drug traffickers were black or Arab… It’s a fact.”

So in the end he is prosecuted because he reports on racist policy, I guess that makes sense somewhere somehow. The inquisition of the multichurch in action, not even a shred of doubt is to be allowed.
Actually, from what our French posters seem to be saying about France and religion, you would probably have been more accurate had you phrased that as "inquisition of the a-religious."


Others:

Vis-a-vis "political correctness," it is important to remember that language is a slippery thing. Attempting to prohibit certain thoughts by banning the common labels used to express them is rather silly. On the other hand, encouraging (not legislating!) a new set of labels with different connotations CAN augment other efforts to make a cultural attitude shift towards some subject.

In short, words do matter.