Dutch politician Esther Ouwehand was asked to remove her first shirt (Palestine flag), so she came back wearing another one of watermelon seeds.
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermelon/_as/_a/_Palestinian/_symbol]
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At least in Germany, and I imagine it would be similar in the Netherlands, it would be the parliament’s president because political symbols on clothing are not allowed.
Not really. The Israeli flag has been raised over the German Bundestag building
You know that a building is not the same as clothing, right?
Why does it matter on what the political symbol is?
Aww, you’re so cute. Like the law would care about common sense instead of opressing minorities ;p
Thats cute that you say opressing minorities because that decision (to put up the flag on that day) was made unanimously.
Because you’re talking about a law or rule - it is literally all about how it is written - people build entire careers on debating the interpretation of how they are written.
“No government employee can wear political symbols to work” is 100%, clearly and entirely not the same as “No political symbols may be shown anywhere on any government property”
Seriously?? A downvote?? You asked why it matters, I explained why it matters, jfc, leave the nasty Reddit behaviour on Reddit tyvm.
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Yeah because the Bundestag voted for it (unanimously btw)
Had some similar silliness in the Ontario provincial parliament in Canada when they decided a keffiyeh was a ‘political symbol’ or some such bs - they threw a member right out for refusing to take it off.
IMO, it would be better if politicians were like Nascar drivers. At least it would be more honest.