Donald
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« on: September 01, 2017, 07:32:57 pm » |
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...I think the people of Musturtun need to get out more.....🙄
Masterson Library discriminates against good customers for fear of being accused of discriminating against bad customers
I can see how in Britain for twenty years the Muslim rape gangs got away with it. Authorities these days have such a fear of offending people that they will not act when they should and instead act when they shouldn’t by clamping down on people who are no threat at all.
Masterston library has a problem with “unsavoury young people” in baseball caps and hoodies so they enforced the rules unbendingly on a 78 year old woman for wearing a bright pink hat.
Fay Lambert in her favourite pink hat, which was too threatening for Masterton District Library PIERS FULLER/STUFF
…Fay Lambert was outraged at being told to remove her beloved headwear as she sat at one of Masterton District Library’s computers this week.
She was so upset she hurled her hat to the floor and, after a senior librarian confirmed the ban, she stormed out.
The library introduced its no-hats policy after a wave of crime and intimidation from young people in baseball caps and hoodies.
“I was furious. I pointed at my friend, who was sitting across from me and wearing her hat, and said, ‘What about her?’ ”
She even called the police station to see what would happen if she refused to take her hat off in the library in the future.
Manager Sandy Green said the introduction of internet-connected computers in 2012 brought an “unsavoury element” to Masterton District Library.
“[The officer] said that every establishment has their own rules, and I suggest you follow them,” Lambert said.
The library began its hat ban in 2013, a year after the introduction of internet-equipped computers attracted what manager Sandy Green called an “unsavoury element”.
Crime shot up, and library staff faced intimidation almost daily, Green said.
“We were getting a lot of complaints. There were kids in hoodies hanging around outside the door and preventing people from getting in, and they were even intimidating people inside.”
Clearly Fay is not a young person or an intimidating one. Why was ” discretion” not applied to her case?
Hats were banned so people could be identified on security cameras. Green said the rule had to be applied across the board, in order for no one group to complain about discrimination.
There was some discretion allowed: cancer patients, or people wearing hats for religious reasons, would be allowed to keep their hats on.
That right there shows that a rule does not have to be applied across the board in order to be effective although I would like to know if they consider Muslim women’s headgear to be religious. We know that the Burka, for example, is not a religious garment and nothing can be more intimidating than a full face mask. If they allow Muslim girls and women in the library wearing those disgusting masks then their treatment of Fay is even more unreasonable.
It was the first time Lambert, a regular at the library, had been asked to remove her hat, and she said there was a teenager across the table from her at the time who was wearing a hoodie.
“I was enraged, because it just felt so disempowering.”
No other libraries in Wairarapa have policies banning hats, and nor does Wellington.
But Green said that, since Masterton’s cameras were installed and hats banned, crime had drastically fallen, and staff and patrons felt much safer.
Some hat-wearing teenagers outside the library supported the ban. Monaro King, 13, said on Wednesday: “I mean, when you go in there, someone in a hat might steal something and they won’t know who did it.
“I think it’s a good idea.”
I think that it is ridiculous that our world has become so restricted by political correctness that organisations feel that they have to enforce rules designed to stop young troublemakers on those who do not remotely pose a threat because they fear being accused of picking on young troublemakers.
In a non PC world the library could be upfront about who they are targeting for the hat ban and if the young troublemakers didn’t like it they could go jump! Too bad if they get hurtie feelings. If a certain demographic is a problem then that demographic and that demographic only should be targeted. This is where the pendulum has swung too far.
C slater
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