Monday, January 05, 2015
Just missed a good idea
Okla has a long-standing law against concealing your identity by wearing a hood. It was passed in the '20s when KKK was overactive.
Now a legislator wants to modify the law to ban the modern equivalent, the hoodie.
Seems like a good symbolic idea, but I can immediately see two problems:
(1) Banning hoodies will only increase the number of young fuckheads wearing them for idiot political motives. "We All Hoodie Now" came before "Hands Up" and "I Can't Breath". All three "movements" are phenomenally stupid and self-destructive. If you want to increase your freedom for NON-CRIMINAL actions, you want to have CRIMINALS clearly identified and clearly punished. You don't want to conflate yourself with actual criminals who rob stores, kill innocent bystanders and attack cops. You don't want to blur the lines, because the authorities will take advantage of the blurred lines to punish all white youngsters. (Vibrants, of course, are always immune from punishment.)
(2) Actual criminals actually wear and use the hoodie, which means it's often part of the description of an actual criminal. If wearing a hoodie becomes a crime in itself, lawyers will be able to confuse and discredit witnesses. "You claim the defendant was wearing a hoodie. Are you aware that you are accusing the defendant of an extra crime, and that he could sue you for false accusation?"
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A much better idea: Instead of making the hoodie a crime, simply use the existing law intensely. Anyone seen wearing a hoodie shall be publicly announced as a Klansman, and his KKK affiliation shall be reported to FBI, TSA, BATF, DHS, DO"J" and the "Southern" "Poverty" "Law" Center.
Instant result: Aint None Us Hoodie Now. Zero hoodie.
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