'Racist' sports shirts banned from school pic

[Gavril]

'Racist' sports shirts banned from school pic

Published: 5th September 2007 17:18 CET
Online: The Local - \'Racist\' sports shirts banned from school pic
A school principal in southern Sweden has banned pupils from posing for class photos wearing national team shirts containing Swedish flags.

Since national flags may be perceived by some as xenophobic, eighth grade pupils in Karlshamn have been ordered to wear less inflammatory garb for a photo to be published in the school yearbook.

"Anybody looking at the photo could view it as a political demonstration," principal Pär Blondell from Strandskolan told news agency TT.

The headmaster added that some of the pupils have labelled the ruling "ridiculous".

Following an article on the subject in newspaper Sydsvenkan, a number of parents and irate letter-writers contacted the principal to express their dismay at the shirt ban.

But Blondell stuck to his guns, arguing that the pupils risked inadvertently earning themselves a bad reputation. People could begin speculating about "the racists from Karlshamn" once the yearbook began being distributed in the Malmö area, he said.

Caroline Johannesson, one of the pupils affected by the ban, failed to understand the principal's reasoning.

"You should be able to wear what you want," she said.

Her father agrees and has pledged to attend the next parent teacher meeting wearing a national team shirt in protest.

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The shirt in question:

[Strengthandhonour]

wow..just wow.

[Marcus Marulus]

I'm without words...it's worse than USSR...

[3rdEye]

Yeah, really...

[Errigal]

I've said it before but these politically correct people are impossible to parody because they parody themselves.

If a comedian used this in his act he would be told it is too obvious to be funny; "No schoolteacher is that PC!".

[Ariets]

They are more stupid than many others morons. Nothing special since Sweden is mostly left-wing country - Im right?

[Phlegethon]

Don't most of Sweden's non-whites wear national flags on theirt shirts anyway. Heck in their football national team they even play in those shirts.

[Galaico]

What's next, Swedes dyeing their blond hair black to avoid racial tension? Dark lenses to hide light eyes? Mandatory hair perm and artificial tanning?

Would the principal ask someone like Larsson to take off the Swedish t-shirt?

[Errigal]

I know this might offend some Swedes, but why is it so often Sweden that comes out with this rubbish? I'd also add that when a few Swedes do chose to be non-PC they they very often embrace the Atlanticist neocon project. Essentially trading one kind of trusting naivety for another.

En bref Sweden WTF?

[Susi]

I have a shirt like this.. ,_, I am so racist.

[Cirrus]

This is completely surreal. Here, even those who support the integration of immigrants also support the national symbols.

[Zrinski]

WTF is wrong with Sweden?!

[Marcus Marulus]

I usually never wear any T-shirt that reproduces the dress of the Croatian national team, because I think of this ostentatious "patriotism" as of something that has no real substance, it's just pose.

But if tomorrow some PC moron comes out with a proposal to shun all such T-shirts, because of being un-PC, then I am going to wear that kind T-shirt during all summer, just to upset those internationalist and antinational idiots.