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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou're Known By The Hat You Wear
Cynthia Tucker
January 27, 2019 4:36 am
Symbols are powerful, conveying profound messages with the simplest images.
Soldiers carry a flag into battle and face death to hoist it aloft. Christian churches are identified by T-shaped pieces of wood or metal affixed to prominent places. In some ancient Eastern religions, the swastika represented peace, but it is today universally recognized as a sign of racism and anti-Semitism, violent repression and genocide. Each of those symbols carries a deep meaning recognized by those who display it.
During his 2016 campaign, President Donald Trump launched his own symbol a baseball cap with the words Make America Great Again emblazoned on it. Because of the incendiary rhetoric he spewed during his rallies, the MAGA cap quickly became associated with a bundle of prejudices xenophobia, racism, sexism, Islamophobia. If you wear the cap, you arent just a fan of Trump; youre also a bigot who wants to build a wall on the southern border.
Or so the thinking goes.
That helped to make last weekends encounter between the Covington Catholic High School teens and a Native American man on the Washington Mall especially fraught: Several of the Covington students were wearing MAGA caps. (And regardless of what youve heard about the students being misrepresented, some of them can indeed be heard sarcastically whooping Hollywood versions of Indian war cries and miming a tomahawk chop.)
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You're Known By The Hat You Wear (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jan 2019
OP
Whenever I see someone with A baseball cap on backwards I think they are a fool
kimbutgar
Jan 2019
#2
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)1. This RED hat is the new White Hood......
You see the faces of those who wear them and they say who that person is.
kimbutgar
(21,157 posts)2. Whenever I see someone with A baseball cap on backwards I think they are a fool
Wearing a maga cap backwards shows you Are a fool and a bigot. Double whammy.
crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)4. Yes, I'd rather be known by a pink hat
ooky
(8,924 posts)5. I'll never buy another red ball cap as long as I live.
akraven
(1,975 posts)6. My hat when it's not winter: