http://www.concordia.ca/artsci/philosophy/news/Bill21Statement.html?fbclid=IwAR27WQ-fe36TtyDEPwMVgUPYOkVVCL5XVJQfFqCUt0YQN4GyjzWNK7LQdVQ
Concordia University and other universities in Québec and Canada are working to make our research, teaching—and society—more equitable, diverse, and inclusive.
Dialogue across diverse perspectives is needed for knowledge, learning, science, and democracy itself. This need is especially felt in philosophy, where key contributions have been made by outcasts and outsiders, where members of minorities have opened important areas of study, from feminist philosophy, to philosophy of race, and more.
Québec’s recently tabled Bill 21, An Act respecting the laicity of the State 21, runs counter to these advances, including Québéc’s own advances in inclusive democracy. Laïcité is a crucial feature of political life and democracy in Québec. But it is not under threat by any dominating religious authority of power. Here, now, dress that symbolizes a person’s religious belief or identity is simply that—it poses no threat to läicité as a shared principle. There is no need to regulate dress for us to live together in our democratic society.
Concordia University and other universities in Québec and Canada are working to make our research, teaching—and society—more equitable, diverse, and inclusive.
Dialogue across diverse perspectives is needed for knowledge, learning, science, and democracy itself. This need is especially felt in philosophy, where key contributions have been made by outcasts and outsiders, where members of minorities have opened important areas of study, from feminist philosophy, to philosophy of race, and more.
Québec’s recently tabled Bill 21, An Act respecting the laicity of the State 21, runs counter to these advances, including Québéc’s own advances in inclusive democracy. Laïcité is a crucial feature of political life and democracy in Québec. But it is not under threat by any dominating religious authority of power. Here, now, dress that symbolizes a person’s religious belief or identity is simply that—it poses no threat to läicité as a shared principle. There is no need to regulate dress for us to live together in our democratic society.
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