Remember how the press would go after W smirking all the time.
Nick Sandmann is a practicing Catholic. Am I the only person to remember the famous quote by Mother Teresa “Peace begins with a smile”.
The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself — anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide.
In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (incredulity when a victory was announced, for instance) was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called.