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  • I am pretty much okay with freedom of speech, sunlight is the best disinfectant, etc., etc. The alternative is driving this kind of rhetoric underground where they have the benefit of acting like they're being oppressed as "truth-sayers" or whatever.

    I happen to think there's some truth to some Conservative arsehole's recent statement that pockets of Islamic migrants in the UK are incapable of culturally integrating, which is being lambasted as xenophobic hate speech despite the fact it's demonstrably true. I saw a schoolgirl in the full veil yesterday, I'm sorry but I don't think that's in keeping with progressive values, whether you want to call those "Western" or not. Talk about referring to women as household objects.

    Then again, I haven't used Facebook for years. Maybe they're pandering to their user-base.

  • Same in England, at least traditionally. There's a song about the Twelve Days of Christmas etc. I think the old thing to do was cook two Christmas cakes and keep "feeding" one of them with brandy until Easter, when you covered that with marzipan to make something called a Simnel cake. Also I think you were supposed to actually make those cakes at the beginning of October, so it's a pretty obvious example of a historical practice of preserving the harvest, with religious significance attached after the fact. I think I might get back into it, I love a bit of traditional food culture.