General Discussion

Saying something shouldn't be outlawed isn't the same as endorsing it, either. I supported the ACLU's defense of Nazis right to march in Skokie, and I also come from a family that had people die in the camps.

Because I understand that the best answer to totalitarianism is freedom, even for assholes and shitwits.

There is a difference between calling something a symbol of oppression, and making it illegal to wear it. I see people here who think the sports illustrated swimsuit issue is a symbol of oppression, and want to make it illegal for women to take their tops off for photographs in a magazine. Because oppression, or something.

I see women in hijabs all the time. Maybe they're being oppressed or forced to wear them, but that's a case for local law enforcement should they decide to press a complaint. Because at some point you have to give adults in a free society the benefit of the doubt that they're making their own decisions unless they specifically indicate to you otherwise.

Beyond that I can't imagine that setting the same local law enforcement into the business of headgear policing, is really an effective use of taxpayer dollars.

Outlawing everything we don't like is exactly what control freaks and authoritarians do.