Vancouver police officer is directed to remove Star of David patch from uniform
Vancouver police officer is directed to remove Star of David patch from uniform
The VPD has previously said unauthorized patches should not be worn on uniforms
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While I agree it shouldn't be a big deal to have a star of David on your person. as an atheist if you wanna support your faith on your clothes, go nuts, it's not hurting anyone. But this was already his employers policy and it's a work uniform so for that reason alone it should be taken off.
This is the patch
Wow. Also, the obsession of morons with Punisher is just baffling. It's not a very complicated story at all, and yet all these idiots just completely misunderstand it and proudly wear this mark because Frank Castle is cool and kills people...
Screw the star of david, having a Punisher skull symbol anywere on or close to your damn uniform should be a fireable offense.
It is an odd adoption but the Punisher skull is a known alt-right symbol particularly amongst the "Three Percenters", Proud boys and a certain age range of Neo Nazis.
The alt right continuously does this thing where they adopt symbols to recognize each other in a pack but the shit they choose is purposefully ridiculous and childish so you sound like an absolute moron trying to explain to an authority that pepe the frog is actually potentially construable as sexual harassment in certain situations because it's essentially a short hand for rape... It's inane but it is very effective.
Completely off topic but I gotta rant it out...
There's also this thing that the Canadian Conservatives are great at which is controlling the media coverage by lies of omission. My hometown had this whole "scandal" where someone's mic was shut off during a town council for "bringing legitimate concerns about trans people." and papers ran it like that... But what actually happened is the mic shutdown happened because the person in question kept using the mic to be vile about trans people on every open mic opportunity. Open mic portion regarding adding speed bumps : " nope I am gunna talk over the allotable time about pronoun policies in schools." Oh you want to talk about changes to funding structures of municipal trash collections? " Nope mic time to use the t-slur and rant more about woke teachers." One could pretend that they just don't understand the basic Roberts rules of order but their aim is always to spin anything they can as oppression.
They are doing the same here. The articles are not providing proper context that the patch is not just a Star of David patch... It's a black and white version of the Israeli flag with the bars thay mark it as thus. It's not depicting a specific religious stance, it's depicting a political regime. But it creates a fine opportunity for religious bigots to banging the drum about headscarves and turbans and how we should strip government officials of their comfort for daring to have visible markers of their religious beliefs as though these are somehow the same.
Like I get it. Not understanding what counts as hate speech or legitimate targets of criticism is probably very confusing and alarming when you feel like people shut you down at seemingly random ... But they could just assuage their anxieties by just LEARNING the rules. Like we have actual laws about what counts here.
Yeah. Frank Castle beat the shit out of many an officer who tried to follow his path of vigilantism.
Near?
Beat?
Yes. SwiftKey is not always the most accurate.
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Allowing religious symbols on police uniforms opens up the gate for people wanting to wear hijabs with their police uniforms.
Sikh cops are allowed to wear turbans and it doesn't harm anyone when they do.
Maybe in Canada. But they certainly aren't in Norway
Canada has at least one. America has them. Being able to see someone's hair doesn't really seem like a requirement for police officers. Back in the day, police officers all wore hats in the US anyways.
You talking about the uniform caps, or just hats in general?
I consider caps to be hats, yes.
Any symbols other than the flag of the jurisdiction you’re serving should be forgone while wearing a uniform.
And insignia of course
What part of a police officer's job is made impossible by wearing a scarf or a hat?
The government should not be forbidding anyone's religious practice. That being said, a patch on a uniform is not a religious obligation. Totally different category from a kippah, hijab, turban, ash, bindi, etc.
What part of a police officer's job is made impossible by wearing a scarf or a hat?
Neutrality. A police officer should be enforcing the law, not representing a religion. Luckily religious symbols in the Norwegian police force is still illegal (including christian symbols). And it should remain that way in a secular state
Yeah this is the equality vs equity debate. Saying that you are banning all religious dress doesn't weigh equally on Christians vs non-Christians. Additionally even when it would there are loopholes given. The NT endorses woman to grow their hair long. The various security forces of the world usually allow woman to do it. So even the argument that you are treating every religion the same doesn't hold up.
A turban is not endorsement of Sikhism. By banning mandatory religious garments you are just promising that the police do not reflect the demographics of the area. Which is not a great thing.
That position requires a willful ignorance of the difference between a religious symbol and a religious practice.
Do you really think it's a coincidence that the law carves out a specific prohibition on religious practices that doesn't affect Christians, the dominant religious group? Your flag has a cross on it.
This looks like some 4chan shit lmao
Are you fucking kidding me? Wooooow.
Ha, wow. Did not picture this ‘Star of David’ patch when I read the headline.
The truth is that they want him to remove it because it's extremely cringey.
It's a call for genocide...
Bruh
Take off every sihks turban then?
A patch is not a religious obligation. If it were a kippah it'd be different.
People should be allowed their religious freedom, but that doesn't mean decorating their uniform however they want.
What are you talking about, sikh cops are allowed to wear their turbans
He's suggesting that if person A needs to remove a star, person B could be forced to remove a turban
This is the definition of false equivalence, that's comparing two situations without considering their relative differences, leading to leaps in logic or inaccurate statements.
Sikh head wraps are an extra article of clothing which is worn for religious purposes and is widely recognized as such. This patch, while worn for religious purposes also contains clear political messages, which is inappropriate for a police officer. They are peace officers who if someone disagrees with, and they happen to be highly opinionated could ruin that person's life unfairly or even cause them harm.
But disregarding that, and going back to my original statement, is not an extra accessory but a modification to the uniform, which is against the department's policies. That is why this was acceptable to be made to be removed.
Tell them that not me, I'm just clarifying the comment
No I realize that, sorry, i was posting this on your comment for context, as im sure they'll check for replies at some point, sorry if I came off aggressively
Feel free to come off aggressively, this is the internet. It's your right
