A single volunteer who was fired. This is more about the APD who have a long and much criticized history of abuse.

I think both are pretty significant. Your message suggests this second incident should be dismissed.

A volunteer asking for something unreasonable, possibly because he has no understanding for the religious role of a hijab, that you can simply decline, maybe explain and surely get sorted by talking to someone else, or at worst just walk away in disgust, is very different than experiencing police abuse and force, being helpless and restrained, isolated from your friends and family for hours.

Not to dismiss that event, still pretty fucked up, but not the same order of magnitude.

I agree they are very different.

> but not the same order of magnitude.

Systemic abuse magnifies the scale of individual incidents.

IMO it's better to describe it as an issue with Austin/Texas as a whole, instead of just tying everything to SXSW.

Austin & Texas have a lot of problems.

Can anyone explain to me why she shouldn't have to take her hat off? How many accommodations are we willing to make "for religious reasons"?

Can you explain why she should?

Fairness. Is that not sufficient reason?

If taking your hat off was required for the picture, then she should also have to take her hat off. If taking your hat off was optional, then she should be able to keep her hat on.

It was one volunteer. How stupid can you be? It was not "SXSW".

Go away.