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Bluenorthwest

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4. He's not talking about States but individuals living in Canada, the law makes a big stink about
Mon Mar 23, 2015, 03:58 PM
Mar 2015

making things specifically illegal that are already illegal, such as 'honor killings' which of course are illegal as any other sort of murder. The law is deployed by conservatives to dog whistle in this case against Muslims. It's like pushing a law that makes it illegal for Baptists to steal. Since it is already illegal for everyone to steal, such a law would exist as a way of implying that Baptists are thieves, society particularly burdened by their thieving ways.
It used to be very popular, for example, to promote laws making same sex marriage illegal when it was already illegal. It's a way to talk about minorities you don't like much.

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