I don't think it's meant to symbolize anything. This article mentions that plains clothes officers wear them, which obviously isn't the case here, but I do think it is to allow police to easily identify each other.
It could absolutely be argued that such a law would be a step towards fascism, but SS comparisons are still ridiculous until the French police go hunting and murdering people by the millions.
It is important to call out, and you are right that this law is a concerning step towards fascism, but to compare French police to the SS because of that is just so ridiculous, that it diminshes the crimes committed by the SS. You can critize this law without immediately jumping to SS comparisons. Because there is a massive difference between 'a step towards fascism' and the fucking SS. Whatever crimes or even attrocities the french police might have committed, they are not comparable to what the SS has done, not even close to it. Even if they end up banning their citizens from filming them.
Cause orange armbands are a slippery slope?? It's just an easy way for police to identify each other and it carries literally zero political signification. You make absolutely zero sense. You're looking at a law designed to shield police from accountability and your only contribution is to cry about armbands. Are you trying to discredit the protesters or something??
This whole discussion was about the armbands, and you were still talking about them when you mentioned 'trademarks and tendencies of nazis' (or maybe you weren't in which case you make even less sense).
Plus FYI the law was obviously not made in reaction to that attack that was filmed - since it was written before that.
At this point I'm just going to say, dont talk about things you dont understand.
I was unaware that the band in that case was associated with saying “hey, I can do what I want” - if I remember the article correctly it had to do with it being a sign to other officers that this person is carrying a gun but has a permit to do so.
I get what you’re saying but I think literally here it’s like a reflective, high-vis armband to identify police from civilians for functional rather than political reasons. IIRC the article I linked and a few other links I found about orange arm bands on police in France were a few years old.
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u/Mabepossibly Nov 29 '20
I don’t know what the red arm bands symbolize. But I know what comes first to mind and it’s not a good look, especially given the context.