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Should MAGA hats be banned from public places now?
- Thread starter Birdie
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I am not sure I follow. All those symbols are classified as hate speech but they aren't banned.
You can't "ban them" anymore than you can any other symbol of hate under the U.S. constitution. What needs to happen is it turns into the Confederate Flag where at one time it was acceptable in the mainstream it becomes demonized. Won't make it go away completely but no symbol of hate ever does.
I like being able to spot the pieces of shit.
Even if they were banned, you'd just see people trying to be slick. I live in an area where a Trump hat wouldn't turn heads, but you still have people who wear plain red hats or a red hat with another logo trying to be sly.
Even if they were banned, you'd just see people trying to be slick. I live in an area where a Trump hat wouldn't turn heads, but you still have people who wear plain red hats or a red hat with another logo trying to be sly.
Nah, I like them because they let me know who to stay as far away from as possible. I like it when the crazies proudly identify themselves. If they enter a room, I leave.
Maybe by principal, but the fact is when the Overton window is so fucked in your country the MAGA movement gets over 47% of the vote, and the second highest vote total in US history, I think that kind of move causes more problems than it solves.
No, they shouldn't and can't be banned from public places. People have a quintessential right to wear them, and you have a quintessential right to judge them for it.
Civil rights are civil rights.
Private places, sure, treat it like any hate symbol, if you own a private business and you don't want a hate symbol worn in your business you have a right to restrict that.
In America you have a basic right to wear hate symbols, whether it's MAGA or ISIS. And infringing on that right will certainly be abused against progressive causes more than conservative ones.
Civil rights are civil rights.
Private places, sure, treat it like any hate symbol, if you own a private business and you don't want a hate symbol worn in your business you have a right to restrict that.
In America you have a basic right to wear hate symbols, whether it's MAGA or ISIS. And infringing on that right will certainly be abused against progressive causes more than conservative ones.
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I have no problem with anyone who has or continues to wear one becoming social or career pariahs. Can't be banned outright though. There are a lot of people who will be culling their FB & Twitter of MAGA hat photos. If Company X sees a prospect having worn one they should totally reconsider their employment. If minorities can be denied employment just for having ethnic names in this bigoted country then it's only fitting MAGA-clad white supremacists get similar if not worse treatment. Hell wearing/displaying Trump anything and not just a MAGA hat should be social suicide.
Yes
Also Yes
Sadly yes
This. Absolutely should be banned in online games, and any private owned business.
If that were to happen, you really would have civil war. The furthest it could go is treating them like ISIS sympathizers, but there's so many it be impossible to keep track of
I think this week proved that their talk of Civil War is the talk of a dog trying to catch a car.
Also three of them died by self-inflicted taser/without the police doing anything. I don't think the war will be very long. They post the locations of all their bases to Facebook.
I'd rather know if the person next to me is a racist psychopathic trashcan than not, so I'm gonna say no
I don't know about that. Banning a hat seems a little extreme. How about we just ban the people who wear them from public places?
