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Barbie screening cancelled in Paris after anti-LGBTQ+ backlash
(www.thepinknews.com)
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Look, I'm not going to get into whether or not immigration should be restricted but this is a direct consequence of immigrants from the Arab world bringing their extremely socially conservative values to Paris. I feel like everyone in this thread and the article is tiptoeing around that fact.
How about outright denying it? Is that "tiptoeing around it"?
??? It was Muslim youths though?
[Muslim youths shut down Barbie screening for ‘promoting homosexuality’] (https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/barbie-screening-paris-cancelled-muslim-protests-lpl7cm0lb)
"Aurore Bergé, minister for gender equality, said that the incident was “not insignificant” because it comes in the context of what the government sees as a spreading campaign by hardline Muslims to influence social behaviour in districts with immigrant populations. France must be alert to “these attempts to infiltrate”, Bergé said. “They must be denounced systematically for what they are.” "