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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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To: the OlLine Rebel

It’s really due to the rise in popularity of the British show, Peaky Blinders. Great show btw. This type of haircut was pretty common from the WWI era until after WW II.


41 posted on 09/26/2019 7:50:21 PM PDT by JMS
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To: EdnaMode

The ADL is meshugge.

CC


42 posted on 09/26/2019 7:54:36 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
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To: EdnaMode

I saw some young men with same haircut wearing suspenders and weird button pants. Wondered if they were amish but it was at a gas station


43 posted on 09/26/2019 8:02:04 PM PDT by RummyChick ("Pills, money .. this city is wicked. Your best friend will kill you here." Smoove about Baltimore)
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To: EdnaMode
Bowl cut? Wait a sec, I thought it was "skinheads" ???

Unbelievable. Common gestures, now ... well thankfully somewhat uncommon haircuts. Hey, maybe we can declare mullets racist to further discourage their use?

What's next, writing with a blue pen shows subtle support for police, and is therefore racist? Or merely the fact that you can write, maybe even write in cursive (gasp!) will be determined to be racist.

44 posted on 09/26/2019 8:11:34 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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To: EdnaMode
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45 posted on 09/26/2019 8:14:19 PM PDT by stylecouncilor (Dreg of Society)
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To: EdnaMode
Well, there was the 1930s-40s comedian and singer Ish Kabibble

Song featuring Ish Kabibble

46 posted on 09/26/2019 8:20:25 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: EdnaMode

I suspected that-about Ben Stiller and Charlton Heston...

47 posted on 09/26/2019 8:23:27 PM PDT by Dogbert41
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To: EdnaMode

Needs a picture of Moe Howard.


48 posted on 09/26/2019 8:34:33 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: EdnaMode; Impy; BillyBoy; LS; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; Clemenza; ...

ADL goes full retard. Film at 11.


49 posted on 09/26/2019 8:37:35 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: EdnaMode

This and the Joker ‘incel’ profile threat both sound like bogus lecture circuit hacks giving “Know your dope fiend” talks for money.


50 posted on 09/26/2019 8:44:31 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: smokingfrog

Is she the 5th Beatle?


51 posted on 09/26/2019 8:45:30 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: FreedomPoster

Any truth to the legend that Beatles really wanted Hitler cuts?


52 posted on 09/26/2019 8:46:32 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: LYDIAONTARIO

Read up on the origin of Penny Lane. #RacistBeatles


53 posted on 09/26/2019 8:49:16 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: dfwgator

Camper Van bump!


54 posted on 09/26/2019 8:51:38 PM PDT by kallisti (OLDTHINKERS UNBELLYFEEL INGSOC)
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To: EdnaMode

And some flappy-lipped toad


55 posted on 09/26/2019 9:01:55 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.)
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To: EdnaMode
I always THOUGHT there was something about Cousin Oliver

56 posted on 09/26/2019 9:19:26 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("...a choice between Woke-fevered Democrats and Koch-funded Republicans is insufficient."-Mark Steyn)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Cut that way so a kniggit’s helm will have some padding to sit on. Knights in shining armor are only cool when their helmets are on, all other times they look like dorks.


57 posted on 09/26/2019 10:07:14 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Yo-Yo

Curly: “Ya know what I think Moe?’’

Moe: “Listen chowder head, every time you think you weaken the nation!’’


58 posted on 09/26/2019 10:45:51 PM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: Yaelle
So white people without bowl cuts are NOT all racist?

If they flash the "OK" hand signal they are racists, with or without bowl cuts.

It is hard to keep up with this stuff.

59 posted on 09/26/2019 11:18:08 PM PDT by TChad
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To: fieldmarshaldj; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; BillyBoy

You what I think? Peanut butter is racist.

My evidence?

The Ghost of George Wallace’s mom told me that he liked to have it for lunch sometimes.


60 posted on 09/26/2019 11:23:39 PM PDT by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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