Don’t wear your MAGA hats out in public

The New Neo ^ | Jan 21, 2019 | NeoNeoCon

[joma89]

I’ve noticed many pundits, in the fallout from the Covington boys vs. the Native American incident, saying that the kids shouldn’t have worn MAGA hats. I’ve seen it said over and over, mainly by people walking back previous vicious comments about the boys and trying to balance it by now saying “well, they shouldn’t have been wearing the hats.”

Others have chimed in, too, for example this member of Congress. I kid you not:

Rep. John Yarmuth ✔ @RepJohnYarmuth I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of teenagers wearing MAGA hats until we can figure out what is going on. They seem to be poisoning young minds. [1/2]

Courier Journal ✔ @courierjournal "It was racism. It was hatred. It was scary." The Native American leader who was surrounded and taunted by Covington Catholic students describes the scene https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2019/01/20/native-american-leader-nathan-phillips-recounts-covington-catholic-video/2630955002/ …

13.1K 10:28 AM - Jan 20, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 33.9K people are talking about this Actually, only a few of the Covington boys had on MAGA hats—the ones more heavily featured in front in the video. But however many wore them, it’s stunning that we’ve gotten to the point that wearing a hat in support of a president and making America great is considered a provocation to violence and trouble, and something that should not be done.

It is something like telling Jews in France (or anywhere else) not to wear their skullcaps, although of course a religion is different than a political hat. But both are public statements about a belief (or in the case of religious Jews, an identity and a belief). In Europe, that’s what it’s come to:

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But to countless Jews across Western Europe, these debates featuring high-profile figures, politicians and Jewish community leaders have little bearing on their own personal choice. Not waiting for anyone’s invitation, hundreds of thousands of them have been hiding their kippahs and other Jewish symbols for years now in Paris, Marseille, Brussels, London, Amsterdam and many other European cities with a large population of Muslim immigrants.

At least a quarter of Europe’s Jews had resolved not to wear their kippahs or any other Jewish symbol publicly before any of the debates even took place, according to a 2013 survey in nine countries. In that European Union poll of 5,100 Jews — the most comprehensive study of its kind — 49 percent of 800 Swedish respondents said they refrained from wearing clothing that identified them as Jewish. In Belgium, whose capital city is the seat of the European Union, the figure was 36 percent.

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When civility has broken down and hatred is being fanned, it’s dangerous to wear any symbol that offends anyone.

[Hardastarboard]

Bring a weapon. Not joking.

[McGavin999]

Do they really think Americans will cower in the corner, whisper about your support of an American president? Are Trump supporters supposed to have a secret sign like the Christians in Roman times?

This stuff is getting out of hand and at some point people are going to turn around and roar SHUT UP!

[Joe Boucher]

here in Florida we have a stand your ground law.
We also have CCW.
Wear your MAGA hat proudly and don’t take crap from butt heads.
Don’t go looking for trouble but stand your ground.

[RedMonqey]

Still not laughing....

[Jim Noble]

Don’t wear your MAGA hats out in public

I have a red one, a blue one, but I usually wear the camo one.

[Lion Den Dan]

Please inform us where we stand legally in the use of a weapon for self defense.................

I don’t give that kind of advice. Contact your State Attorney General’s office for information/statutes on self defense as it varies from state to state.

[sam_whiskey]

Never said it was funny.

[Guenevere]

Maybe she’ll be happier with my new updated sticker.

[Rappini]

I’m going to do the same thing, only problem is we don’t have too many liberal areas where we live.

[central_va]

A red MAGA hat looks good matched with a yellow safety vest.

[dpetty121263]

It should probably go without saying (but I’ll say it anyway :) ) that if you do wear your MAGA hat out in public, you should also be appropriately armed.

And make sure to Lawyer up before hand and have them on retainer as you may need a Lawyer and they may try and claim you provoked it...

[no-to-illegals]

Buy and wear the hat and a tee shirt that says I’m Armed and I Vote

[old curmudgeon]

You had better put in in the safe until you learn the law

[jonrick46]

I did talk to King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg about the legal use of a firearm. He said that once you give the warning that you will use a firearm and they persist, the option is yours.

[EDINVA]

But P-hats and Che tee shirts are perfectly OK. Any time, anywhere.

[EDINVA]

But P-hats and Che tee shirts are perfectly OK. Any time, anywhere.

[mabarker1]

AND be sure to CCW/CHL whatever it’s called in Your State.

[cweese]

I wear mine all around Austin and haven’t had a problem. Also, I noticed that FoxNews was referring to the indian as a ‘tribal elder’ last night. Unbelievable.

[Feckless]

I have a t-shirt of my own design that say "The US Government Trained Me to Kill Communists and Radical Muslims" and under that "IrOnic, Ain't It?"

The O in ironic is the 0bama symbol. It's also on the back of business cards I hand out on my bike trips.

It used to be my tagline here on FR but I have been censored.

[Nateman]

I was thinking if that happened to me I would have started singing I don't want to work, I just want to bang on the drums all day'