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The MAGA hat has now replaced the Klu Klux Klan outfit as the most reliable identifier of an awful person in the US.

Imagining that things must be true just because we imagine them is a lot of fun. But the truth is that a lot of teenagers are wearing MAGA hats just because it is a trend. Vox did an article about this. You can read it here:

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/1/22/...ndmann-hat

I am a liberal who is outraged that the Covington kids are receiving death threats, and people have actually threatened to do terrorist attacks on the whole school. The kid just wore a hat that you don't like and smiled in an awkward situation, dumbasses!

I'm a liberal. I supported Bernie Sanders in 2016. After he dropped out, I supported Hillary Clinton.  I have never voted Republican in my life, and I am certainly not going to start now. But I have decided that I am going to start wearing a MAGA hat (one of the cheap walmart ones, not an official Trump campaign hat), simply to support liberal values.

Illiberal elements on the left are completely out of control.

Yes it is a fashion trend, amongst racists.
That's what makes it a handy racist indicator.

I assume there are some people who have swastikas because it used to be a hindu symbol and cant see why they might be assumed to be a racist.

If you wear a maga hat people will assume the worst unless you wear an explanatory T-shirt every time you put it on.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/21/opini...index.html

The MAGA hat, like the Confederate flag, wouldn't elicit outraged reactions if it were only a piece of cloth that harkened back to bygone days never to be relived. But it isn't. It is a signifier for those who believe America was great during some point in the past they dare not name, knowing if they do, it would reveal a time when it was worse for people of color. When was America "great"? When millions of black people were slaves? When hundreds of thousands of black men were sold to US companies ? Maybe during the heart of Jim Crow, the height of lynching, or when black people struggling with drug addictions were viewed as criminals to be controlled, not fellow human beings needing help?