Police in the Dutch city of Rotterdam
have launched a new pilot programme which will see them confiscating
expensive clothing and jewellery from young people if they look too poor
to own them.Officers say the scheme will see them target younger men in designer
clothes they seem unlikely to be able to afford legally – if it is not
clear how the person paid for it, it will be confiscated.Rotterdam police chief Frank Paauw told Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf: “They are often young men who consider themselves untouchable. We’re going to undress them on the street.”
The police are going to target marginalized people and if you can’t whip out a receipt for your clothes they will strip you in the street.
This reminds me of the medieval laws that banned peasants from wearing fancy clothing-
“Laws frequently prevented commoners from imitating the appearance of aristocrats and also could be used to stigmatize disfavored groups. In the Late Middle Ages, sumptuary laws in medieval cities were instituted as a way for the nobility to cap or limit the conspicuous consumption of the prosperous bourgeoisie.
If bourgeois subjects appeared to be as wealthy or wealthier than the
ruling nobility, it could undermine the nobility’s presentation of
themselves as powerful, legitimate rulers.”Let’s just say it outright. This is about race.
This is disgusting and of course it is
$5 says trump is going to try and institute this somewhere.
I thought we got rid of sumptuary laws ages ago.
Also, I wear a gold chain and pendant my grandmother gave me, titanium earrings I pierced my ears with or gold earrings my aunt gave me, and I dress plainly. Is that cause for arrest now? Well, the Singaporean and Malaysian embassies will hear of this.
Dutch police to ‘undress’ youths wearing clothes deemed too expensive for them
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