A policeman measures the distance between a woman's knee and the bottom of her bathing suit.
Washington DC, 1922.
Library of Congress, USA.
Think of France banning burkini and the headscarf, for example.
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51
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