Posted on 03/25/2021 3:33:36 PM PDT by rickmichaels
Several young lawmakers in Rhode Island have complained that the state's senate dress code is 'oppressive' and biased towards white people.
The Rhode Island Senate approved a dress code in a 29-7 vote on Tuesday, mandating that elected officials wear 'proper and appropriate attire, such as blouses, dress slacks and collared shirts with an accompanying jacket'.
And while most Democrats voted to pass the measure, seven left-wing senators dissented, including newly elected Sen. Jonathan Acosta, 31.
Speaking on the floor during a debate on the issue, Acosta claimed it was 'super inappropriate' for a white, male senate president to 'bestow a normative judgment' on what people were able to wear.
'These rules make it okay for us to judge people based on the way they dress or how they look, and I just feel that's super problematic,' Acosta stated.
He called the dress code 'oppressive' and added: 'Folks use expressions like "professional", "presentable", and "appropriate". What they mean is white-collar, White western dress.'
During the debate, Acosta purposefully donned a black guayabera - a traditional Caribbean dress shirt that does not have a collar.
Acosta claimed that the senate dress code has not been widely enforced, and said that he has been wearing cardigans, joggers and Air Jordan sneakers for weeks.
'I assure you that what I wear does not influence the quality of the work I produce,' he stated.
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So let them ti****s free!
Nothing wrong with dress codes.
More businesses schools and government should have dress codes.
A Senator using the phrase “super inappropriate”.
Doesn’t sound very professional.
These people get more silly by the day.
Doesn’t affect the quality of his work...
Got to agree with him there !
And we are not supposed to treat black people differently than white people or any other people?
So if anyone’s ancestors came from the jungle, we should let them wear a loin-cloth?
Will this crxp ever stop?
The country is a laughing stock. Might as well look and speak like Antifa.
Funny thing in plenty of African nations like Uganda there is a dress code, really, we are a sad laughing stock, no wonder China is not afraid of us.
But dress up day...I felt like Cinderella walking among 1000 step sisters.
If they don’t like the dress code, they can resign
Did you start much too soon?
I will never look or speak like Antifa. I still have some values left.
Bad values, but values.
He looks like a slob on his official government photo.
How evil for someone to expect Western dress in a Western country. /s
They get paid a lot of money. They could at least wear a tie.
People judge you on the way you look and dress.
Is this Acosta clown related to Jim Acosta ?
No sewer to deep or putrid for today’s DemocRATs.
Boy, we’re going to need a whole lot of guillotines.
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