Why Make America Great Again Is Stupid

More i,300 reader comments were fabricated in less than 24 hours in response to the story published on Freep.com Thursday evening about whether President Donald Trump's signature Make America Great Again baseball caps have come to symbolize racism.

Some of the remarks were posted to the story itself, others on the Free Press Facebook page about the hats, which have become the subject field of heated debate, especially post-obit a racially charged incident Jan. 18 most Washington, D.C.'southward Lincoln Memorial.

That'southward where students from Covington Catholic School were wearing MAGA hats when they got into a confrontation with a Native American man from Michigan. Besides in the surface area at the fourth dimension of the standoff were four members of the fringe religious grouping the Black Hebrew Israelites, who hurled insults at the students.

The come across led some to say that the hats take come to stand for racism and the president's white nationalist calendar. Others disagree.

Hither's a sampling of what readers had to say (Comments take been edited to correct misspellings, capitalization, punctuation, and offensive words.):

Tim Rousse:The only person that could actually think this lid is racist ... is the RACIST, the inferior person that wants privilege based on their own color of skin, the takers, the non-doers, the lazy, the ones who feel they are owed something.

That is the person that could actually retrieve a red hat of "Make America Great Again" could exist a bad thing. Wow!

Damon Warren:I think this defines the political contend in our country overall. Both "sides" are and then convinced that non only are their own views infallible, but anyone who disagrees could only be an idiot. Add in a self-righteous overtone and you lot've got this article; and your response to it. #exhibitA #twosides #samecoin

Ken Brockington: The MAGA hat is a symbol of support for Trump and his credo. Not everyone who voted for Trump shares his racist ideology, all the same racist groups expressed overwhelming back up for Trump and his racist credo. Sadly, many people who DON'T consider themselves to exist racist were SOMEHOW able to vote for a man who had fabricated NUMEROUS narrow-minded comments. Ultimately, not all Trump voters were racist, only all Trump voters were undoubtedly either themselves racist or racist tolerant.

Laurie Grady: I don't even own a lid, but I volition buy some now. Kinda like all the Trump signs you liberal loonies couldn't stand; anybody was stealing them. Didn't work then, not working now.

Brady Borycki:Absolutely incredible. The hateful intolerant left will stop at cipher. It's America. You tin wear whatsoever you desire; it's called the First Subpoena. Make America Corking Again is racist? These people are SICK.

Robert Jenkins:If one has bothered to study even the smallest fraction of American history, y'all would non only know that America never was great but also that a country with said history should always make that claim. Has the country done "great things?" Yeah. However, a few bright spots dotted over a nearly 241-year history does not cover upwardly for all the wrongs committed. This lid is simply political propaganda.

Geralyn Vertz: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Don't agree with the slogan on the hat? Then don't wear one. Merely respect the rights of gratis speech and end trying to shout people into silence. That'southward fascism.

More than on Freep.com:

Are Trump'south Make America Great Once again hats patriotic or racist?

Catholic student: Our group was not hateful in Washington D.C. incident

Native American man: Covington Catholic students' 'mob mentality' scary

Buddy Osborne:At that place is a narrative that needs to exist understood when people article of clothing that hat. The person wearing it needs to be able to explain why America was no longer great in the first place and what they envision America becoming in the future. Explain your points and you might actually be treated with respect. Otherwise, people presume that you believe America lost its greatness when a black president was elected and became slap-up once more when a white, male president was back in the White Firm.

Cedric Powers:The media is working overtime to create a narrative out of whole cloth. Only the person who wants to encounter racism in a stupid hat will come across it. This campaign to vilify the Trump entrada slogan and hurt his chances for the 2022 ballot ways the Democrats are truly out of ideas.

Jeff Hadacz:My definition of "Make America Great Again" is making America an economic powerhouse, a military powerhouse, pride in being an American. Nobody complained when Ronald Reagan & Bill Clinton used the exact phrase in speeches they gave years agone. People are merely miserable because their own scumbag Hillary Clinton didn't win. You don't have to love your government but support your country, be a Patriot.

Judy Puhl: Hmmm. Black kids shouldn't clothing hoodies if they don't want to be seen as thugs, women shouldn't wear peel-tight clothing if they don't want to be seen equally sluts, but these white boys shouldn't be judged by wearing MAGA hats? Sounds like a double standard to me.

Ramon Royce:For many people, MAGA supports the ideas of a specific population. A population that has been rooted in political control and racial intolerance. Although the hat does not contain a racist phrase, information technology does alienate cultural groups that have never experienced a time when America was truly great.

Tom Salary: There are far worse things printed on shirts, posters, truck-back windows, etc., still nobody seems to care nigh that. Information technology's a Hat, for gosh sakes! If you are offended past something written on a hat, and then the problem isn't with the lid.

Chuck BigelowI remember nosotros should have a hat that says "America is Dandy and together we can make it fifty-fifty better."

Joseph Perotta:I gauge making America great again isn't for some people. They'd rather have more abortions, more perversion, more immorality, more dysfunctional individuals and families, more broken, unmarried-parent, and fatherless homes, more semi-literate students and adults, more drug usage, more illegal aliens, more entitlement, more race pimping, more racial sectionalisation. …

You are against making America great because that requires hard work, sacrifice, honesty, morals, and a lot of things that manifestly you don't have annihilation to exercise with. Yous're more interested in a land that caters to your selfish and sinful nature, will permit you do whatsoever yous want, and volition provide everything in life for it (large "cradle-to-the-grave" government), enforce the rest of the earth to revolve around y'all and treat yous with Christian virtues.

Davi Napoleon: The chapeau is racist, but that's not all information technology is. It means "Take America back to the dark ages, earlier Roe five. Wade, earlier consenting adults could marry whomever they loved, before nosotros made a pocket-sized step toward giving everyone wellness intendance, and a bunch of other things. And, certain, before we had an African-American president."

Annabel Bickel Walker:When 1 wears that lid, one is saying they agree with Trump's policies and behaviors. Since he has openly shown he is a racist, elitist, misogynistic, corrupt person, then wearing that hat says ane agrees with those ways. It is most definitely racist. Just similar if someone were to wave a Nazi flag, this hat also, shows one'due south beliefs.

Robert Stover:For all who say racist, was information technology racist when Neb Clinton said information technology? I say neither merely after reading all of these comments from all the sensitive crybabies that are offended by everything. It makes me want to buy one, I guess I must exist racist and never even knew it.

Dawn Corbin Willmarth:Racist? This word is being used so much I think some people forget what it ways.

Travis Lai: And water is wet... MAGA Hat = White Hood . That's what information technology means and that'south what it's MEANT to mean to others.

David Hiser: To all the snowflakes responding here, I guess you didn't have a trouble when Bill Clinton used the same phrase when he campaigned. If you don't want to MAGA, stay on the sidelines, ride the pine, and keep watching those who desire to MAGA work hard for anybody, fifty-fifty you lot!

Tom Stechow: What does it matter if a MAGA hat is a political statement? Y'all may concord with or yous may not, only it is still a political statement. Why were students representing their school wearing a political statement on their heads? Where were the chaperones and school/church assistants? Many of the same people supporting the students wearing the hats would have a fit if students from a public schoolhouse went on a field trip making a political statement. Since parochial schools are tax-exempt they are actually indirectly partially funded by the taxpayers.

Contact Kristen Jordan Shamus: 313-222-5997 or kshamus@freepress.com. Follow her on Twitter @kristenshamus.

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Source: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/01/25/trump-maga-hats-racist-make-america-great-again/2677458002/

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