Posted on 09/26/2019 6:42:02 PM PDT by EdnaMode
As recently as a few years ago, the bowl cut was primarily known as an unfashionable hairstyle popular among toddlers whose parents cut their hair, and 1990s child stars. Over the past few years, however, the bowl cut has gone from shorthand for male uncoolness to a chilling symbol of racism and extremist violence, according to a recent report from the Anti-Defamation League.
On Thursday morning, the ADL released its additions to its hate symbols database, a library of more than 200 symbols used by hate groups. In addition to entries such as the Happy Merchant, a meme of an anti-Semitic caricature gleefully rubbing his hands together; and the “OK” hand emoji, which actually originated as a 4chan and an 8chan hoax before being adopted by the white supremacist movement as an actual hate symbol, the database now contains the bowl cut, a reference to the hairstyle sported by Dylann Roof, the white supremacist behind the 2015 mass shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, which killed nine people. (Roof pleaded guilty to state murder charges in 2017 and is currently serving nine consecutive life sentences without parole.)
On white supremacist chat forums on platforms like Gab and Discord, the bowl cut takes a few different forms. Images of Roof’s hair are often photoshopped on other people in various white supremacist memes (one popular meme features Roof’s bowl cut superimposed on an SS military shield); some white supremacists will also Photoshop a halo or a glowing effect around Roof’s head for emphasis. The bowl cut is also used as verbal shorthand within fringe groups, with white supremacists referring to themselves as “the bowl gang” or inserting “bowl” into other words, such as swapping out “brother” for “bowlther.”
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I never knew the Amish were white supremacists.
Regardless of the stupid reasoning that bowl cuts are racist,they still are a doofus way to style your hair.
Next the middle finger. Now proctologists are racists.
Well, bowl cuts AND being, uh, NOT a person of colour. Isn’t ‘pinkish’ a color?
Well, he was Jewish, and we all know what that means. He was, no doubt, a Zionist, so that makes him Ultimate Evil.
He even saved his money, and was careful how he spent it. We know how racist that is.
Only a complete tool would wear a bowl cut. Don’t know or care if they’re white supremacists, you should have nothing to do with anybody in that do.
Oh my! The Beatles will be racist now!
This some of the nuttiest stuff I have ever read here.
“...THE white supremacist movement....”
Pray tell, of what do you speak?
This . is . just . stupid . !
Bald guys can never be racist?
So white supremacists are a bunch of hipster doofuses?
I’ll give an OK sign to buying a tiki torch, but I absolutely balk at taking a bad haircut for the cause.
Now THAT sounds anti-Semitic.
Depends on the tattoos on the bald guy but pretty much no.
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