Saw this video about the problem, I didn’t know sewage was flushed into the river alongside the storm waters
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I didn’t know sewage was flushed into the river alongside the storm waters
With combined sewers (sewers that handle wastewater and storm water in the same pipes), it’s generally not that they’re just flushing sewage into the river; it’s that they’re trying to run all the water – wastewater and stormwater – through the water treatment plants but failing when the rainfall is too much. The portion they can’t handle overflows into the river.
Combined sewers are pretty common in areas with older infrastructure. Atlanta, for instance, has recently been forced by a court’s consent decree to spend something like $4 billion fixing (among other things) overflows from the combined sewer system downtown in order to clean up the Chattahoochee River and South River.
(Incidentally, that’s the cost to build gigantic overflow tunnels capable of handling extreme rain events, just like Paris is doing – properly rebuilding the sewer system downtown to handle wastewater and stormwater separately would have been even more expensive.)
Considering how France is now banning certain women’s outfits in school, I have no interest in whatever splash they make hosting.
Banning religious symbols in school is one thing, but banning what people can wear is an assault on privacy. So is forcing people to wear things, directly or through religious brainwashing with imaginary “gods”. Sad that it needs an “image event” to clean a river.
*banning systematic oppression of women
There, fixed that for ya
That’s not how it works. I know multiple Muslim women who wear headscarves and abayas without anyone pressuring them to do so. Blanket banning that is taking away their rights; where does it end? Do we ban all marriages because some women are pressured into one?
They don’t can women from wearing them - just children that usually wear whatever their parents want them to wear without having a choice.
It’s about making a conscious decision while also removing as much religion from schools as possible
No children is choosing to wear it.
How many Muslim children have you spoken to? Seriously? You know nothing.
Kids want to imitate and be seen as adults; which is why Muslim boys want to grow beards even without any prompting and Muslim girls want to wear hijab because it’s also a sign they’ve matured. Sikh boys want to have beards and turbans for the same reason, and conservative Jewish boys want to have facial hair or a payess.
To these kids, you’re telling them they can’t look like their families in school and have to suppress their religion and culture. You’re singling them out and putting all the burden on them and not putting the same burden on the non-minority children. That’s the wrong way to do it.
If an adult wear provocative dresses or adult clothes, you would not let a child dress like that because their parents do.
All religious items are banned in schools in France, so just because you are minority, don’t give you the right to not follow what others do.
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You genuinely don’t know that and are making assumptions. Talk to some Muslim families before you assume that’s how everyone is. Kids often proudly like to dress in cultural or ethnic clothing and since it’s start at a certain age they want to as a mark of maturity. It should be about choice and you seem unwilling to accept when people choose to wear things.
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Again you’re grossly overgeneralizing 2 Billion people as if we’re all alike. It’s still wrong and untrue. It’s like claiming Mexicans beat their wives or something. That’s just not the experience I’ve had after decades of living in Muslim communities. I hope you learn that someday.
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It’s just for schoolgirls and college students. It’s not a nationwide ban. This move is just a pr move to gain far right votes, nothing more.
It’s also showing those children that it’s not bad if you’re not wearing that kind of clothing.
If they want to use them as a cultural choice when they are adults that’s fine - the problem is if they never new anything else as the default.
Putting a bird that knew freedom back in a cage is harder than keeping one caged all their life. It just makes it easier for those children to break out of their patriarchal structures