Is this not more about religious privilege than anything else? Is the problem not that they want to reserve headgear for one religion? https://twitter.com/LibyaLiberty/status/835932719280422915 …
Why? What's the magic ingredient religious values have over secular ones?
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But could argue that in terms of school discipline, kippahs or hajibs are less likely to cause trouble than gang colors and
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Really? You must know of conflict between Jews & Muslims? Violence in some areas?
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Forbidding religious headgear in public schools would force religious parents to send children to private schools
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Not suggesting forbidding it.https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/835982075576582144 …
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Traditionally, it's considered disrespectful to wear a hat indoors. Men are expected to remove hats indoors.
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OK but that's just an expectation. People don't have to if its important to them to keep it on.
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How are schools to judge whe/ that's a good enough reason? Requiring a note from religious leader removes subjectivity.
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They don't. They decide certain perameters for smart headcovering & all students have the same freedom within it.
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schools can't always decide what's a gang problem so they just generally ban headgear
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It is arbitrary. Some countries consider religious symbols in a very similar way to gang/tribal symbols.
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That's interesting. Where?
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I was thinking of France. No religious symbols allowed in schools. Even very long skirts seen as religious symbol.
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Yes, France is very different from US. I guess we have more respect for individual conscience.
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As long as its religious. That's the problem I see.
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That's a profound question which has already been decided in the free exercise clause of the First Amendment.
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Please explain. Why should Islamic values have more freedom than humanist ones?
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Schools can't decide what's a humanist hat v. a gang hat. But they know from tradition what's religious headgear.
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And why is religious headgear privileged? A reason other than tradition.
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