Lol, it’s not a star of David patch, it’s an Israeli flag/punsher insignia patch. Fuck this guy.
A member of the police cannot wear a symbol of genocide as part of their uniform.
It’d be like wearing a KKK patch in the American south.
The thin blue line flag is an overtly fascist neo-nazi symbol and cops all over America wear those patches, so I see what you’re trying to say, but your second sentence is pretty… interesting.
The star of David is a Jewish symbol. The Jewish religion is separate from the Israeli government. The government may be committing genocide in the name of the religion, but that doesn’t mean the entire religion is genocidal.
Upon viewing the patch, it’s pretty clear it’s a monotone flag of the state of Israel, not just a Star of David
Cool.
So you’d be OK with a cop wearing a Hamas patch when interacting with Jewish members of the public?
I hate these kinds of comments.
They said absolutely nothing of the sort.
Taking someone’s valid point and then accusing them of some outlandish thing, completely fabricated by you, on the extreme other side of the spectrum of the context is just a stupid way of interacting with others.
It really just betrays how childish you are and how horribly distorted your world view/psychological condition in general is.
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
The truth is that they want him to remove it because it’s extremely cringey.
It’s a call for genocide…
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.
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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.
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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.
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What part of a police officer’s job is made impossible by wearing a scarf or a hat?
Uniform dress
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.
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This looks like some 4chan shit lmao
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.
I completely agree. On their own time as civilians they should wear whatever crazy political or religious thing that they want. When they are on the clock representing the government charged with upholding the law and protecting the public they should not be endorsing anything else. Yes I would say exactly the same thing for any other flag/emblem including a pride flag.
An image of the officer wearing the black patch that includes the star and white bars, similar to the Israeli flag, was posted on social media on Thursday.
This clickbait headline didn’t specify that it’s not the Magen David, but rather a representation of the Israeli flag, which is not the same thing.
Also, Canada has “thin blue line” flags? What do they look like? The Canadian flag only has two thick stripes, so unless they’re using the version based on the US flag (which makes no fucking sense - they’re Canadian), I don’t see it.
For reference, here’s the image of the patch (downloaded from another article that actually included it:
Canada has “thin blue line” flags
Ew, just as gross as ours. Thanks for the education!
Canadian reactionaries and fascist fucking love American symbolism. They are just standard American Republicans who hate Trudeau.
