Dutch politician Esther Ouwehand was asked to remove her first shirt (Palestine flag), so she came back wearing another one of watermelon seeds.
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Make it into politics and men are still pressuring you to take off your shirt
Go Esther. The people who asked you to remove that flag don’t want to be reminded that they are standing by while a genocide is underway.
Ngl both shirts go hard
What’s the significance of watermelon seeds?
Watermelon has been used as a plausibly deniable way to show support for Palestine since 1967 per Wikipedia, since it shares the same colors as the flag while being a completely common and innocuous item.
I was not aware of this. Thank you kindly
TIL about watermelon 🍉 support
E: there ought to be a list of hidden meaning of various emojis
Watermelon is often used as a symbol of Palestinian resistance as it has the same colours as the flag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermelon_as_a_Palestinian_symbol
Same colors as the one she was told to remove.
Who asked her and under what authority?
This timeline is batshit insane
The speaker of the house asked her, but only when urged to by another member of parliament who reminded him that earlier this year, another member was asked to change the T-shirt he was wearing with a foetus on it during a debate about abortion. The rule is that the appearance of the parliament should be neutral.
By the way, because she was asked to change her clothes, the moment was aired in all talk shows that evening, with an explanation of the watermelon blouse she wore later (and which the speaker suggested she wore instead by the way), so this incident only helped to get her message out there.
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.
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?
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.
Aww, you’re so cute. Like the law would care about common sense instead of opressing minorities ;p
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Yeah because the Bundestag voted for it (unanimously btw)
political symbols on clothing are not allowed
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.
Where can I buy both of these? I love this
Okay, I confess I now want more Esther in my life.
…and Esther changing into different tops…has now woken something in me.A new Antifa perhaps?
As long as Esther is the poster
girlbabe, I’m fine with whatever new it is.
freedom of speech
So many nazis. We need to make a list!
Yep those are two different shirts all right
