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How the Bowl Cut Became a White Supremacist Symbol
Rolling Stone ^ | September 26, 2019 | EJ DICKSON

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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: adl; alwaysthevictim; antidefamationleague; bowlcut; dylannroof; ok; oyvey; rollingstone; the2percenters; whitesupremacist; whitesupremacy
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First the OK sign, now this.
1 posted on 09/26/2019 6:42:02 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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This is good news. So white people without bowl cuts are NOT all racist?


2 posted on 09/26/2019 6:44:04 PM PDT by Yaelle
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What about all those Asian guys with bowl cuts? Are they secretly white supremacists too?


3 posted on 09/26/2019 6:44:09 PM PDT by FormerFRLurker (Keep calm and vote your conscience.)
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Moe Howard, of Three Stooges fame, is now a white supremacist?


4 posted on 09/26/2019 6:44:15 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Please, oh pretty please let Crazy Uncle Joe Biden be the nominee.)
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To: EdnaMode

EJ Dickson is on drugs.


5 posted on 09/26/2019 6:45:17 PM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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Who cares what the ADL thinks anyway??


6 posted on 09/26/2019 6:45:17 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Assange)
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To: EdnaMode

F the ADL. OK?


7 posted on 09/26/2019 6:46:12 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Yaelle

Yup. No bowl cut = not racist. :D


8 posted on 09/26/2019 6:48:38 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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I think that these idiots are confused and that they are really talking about the undercut.

Here is an example:

While I am not a white supremacist that is similar to my haircut.

9 posted on 09/26/2019 6:48:54 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (If the Trump Administration doesn't prosecute the coup plotters he loses the election in 2020)
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10 posted on 09/26/2019 6:50:12 PM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors, and come heavily armed!)
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11 posted on 09/26/2019 6:50:22 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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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.

What about this guy?!


12 posted on 09/26/2019 6:51:06 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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13 posted on 09/26/2019 6:51:24 PM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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They are insane.


14 posted on 09/26/2019 6:52:23 PM PDT by Innovative
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Yay! I feel so untriggered now!


15 posted on 09/26/2019 6:54:34 PM PDT by Yaelle
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“Are they secretly white supremacists too?”

Do they try to do an honest day’s work? Do they have 2 nickles to rub together?

If so they are OBVIOUS white supremacists.


16 posted on 09/26/2019 6:54:55 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: FormerFRLurker

Right? We called our city’s former Japanese consul “the Fifth Beatle” because of his awesome 60s bowl cut. Great guy. So suddenly he’s a white supremacist, I suppose?

I. Do. Not. Think. So!

This stuff is like the fake Hate Crimes, there’s a much bigger market for it than supply of real events/actions, so these Leftist operatives are making crap up.


17 posted on 09/26/2019 6:55:17 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: EdnaMode

Moe, Larry, Cheese!


18 posted on 09/26/2019 6:57:13 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Yo-Yo

19 posted on 09/26/2019 6:57:18 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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Take the Skinheads Bowling!


20 posted on 09/26/2019 6:59:01 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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