An incident at the Lincoln Memorial last Saturday with Covington Catholic High School students ignited an onslaught of criticism for President Trump’s red “Make America Great Again” hat.
Mainstream media outlets falsely accused the students of being at fault in the incident, where many of the students were wearing the red campaign hats. As a result, many people took swipes at the hat and claimed it represented hatred. In a tweet, liberal actress Alyssa Milano compared the hate to the white KKK hood.
Now, a week later, in a piece titled “The MAGA hat is not a statement of policy. It’s an inflammatory declaration of identity,” the Washington Post’s style section took aim at the hat and likened it to wearing the Confederate Flag.
From the Washington Examiner:
“The MAGA hat speaks to America’s greatness with lies of omission and contortion. To wear a MAGA hat is to wrap oneself in a Confederate flag. The look may be more modern and the fit more precise, but it’s just as woeful and ugly,” wrote critic Robin Givhan in Saturday’s Style section.The Post’s fashion desk, which has idolized the fashion trends of former first lady Michelle Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi but slammed the president and his wife’s threads, has condemned the red “MAGA” hat as a sign of hatred.
“The hat has become a symbol of us vs. them, of exclusion and suspicion, of garrulous narcissism, of white male privilege, of violence and hate. For minorities and the disenfranchised, it can spark a kind of gut-level disgust that brings ancestral ghosts to the fore. Here, in 2019, their painful past is present,” she added.
Givhan then compared Sandmann’s appearance at the Lincoln Memorial to his follow-up interview on CBS. At the Mall, he was wearing the MAGA hat. In the interview, he was not.
“How drastically his appearance changed from the fateful moment on the Mall to his appearance on national television,” the fashion critic said. “The world met Sandmann when he was wearing a red MAGA hat and a quilted parka. His mouth was turned up in a thin, wide smile that occasionally expanded into a toothy one. When he appeared on television to defend himself against accusations of racism and disrespect, he wore a heather gray zip-front pullover and a button-down shirt. His short brown hair was shiny. His large eyes rarely blinked. His voice was flat. The MAGA hat was gone.”
“The hat is a provocation,” she claimed. “Is its corrosiveness too much for high school students to understand? No. They have studied American history. They can sort through complex issues related to the Second Amendment, climate change and abortion to not only have an opinion but also organize to change the opinion of others. They are digital natives who understand the power of images. Armed with so much knowledge, it is, perhaps, a more jolting loss, a graver reality, when youth is wrecked by the acid hatred symbolized by a hat.”
https://www.governorpalin.org/2019/01/27/wapo-likens-maga-hat-confederate-flag-claims-represents-acid-hatred/
https://www.governorpalin.org/2019/01/27/candace-owens-crushes-alyssa-milano-kkk-hood-maga-hat-comparison/
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/01/no_maga_hats_in_the_opinion_workers_union_hall.html
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