Yet another ridiculous article in the press as a result of the London riots is this one: The power of the hoodie.
How is it at all sensible and rational to identify and objectify a person, their demographic, character traits and behaviour based on an item of clothing? Someone wears a hoodie, that doesn't make them a degenerate! The wearing of a hoodie does NOT typify anybody. People young and old wear them. They look cute on toddlers, and while they're known for tearing up their homes, they do it because they don't know any better.
The fact that a lot of people involved in the London riots and looting wore hoodies proves absolutely nothing. The banning of hoodies in Tweed Heads and Brisbane have achieved nothing. The motivation behind this stupidly fascist idea is morally vacuous at best. Under the ban, does that mean my kids would get arrested for wearing one when we go out shopping? How stupid!
There are deep issues going on for the people who were involved in the riots. The wearing of hoodies is not one of them. There are inches of newspapers and internet bandwidth being wasted by people debating this point (arguably me included).
Let's get some perspective and get to the real cause of the problem.
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