Ken WhiteJan 14, 2023

I got more pushback than I anticipated on one argument in my post about the Ninth Circuit decision about the MAGA-hat-wearing-teacher: the idea that a MAGA hat is not self-evidently outside acceptable public conduct.

I certainly have a reaction to seeing someone in a MAGA hat — I figure they’d probably hate me, and I probably wouldn’t care to hang out with them — and I know some people have stronger reactions. But . . .

Show threadKen WhiteJan 14, 2023
…I can’t wrap my head around the concept that openly supporting a former President, who got 75 million votes last time, who is still hugely popular among Republicans, is not only completely acceptable in my social circle or yours, but is completely unacceptable in a way that the law should enforce. It’s just not in the realm of reason. It’s one of the more striking examples I’ve encountered recently of in-a-bubble thinking.
Show threadKen WhiteJan 14, 2023
….. It’s actually scary to me that some people think that tens of millions of people should be treated as as-a-matter-of-law outsiders. It’s a terrible, terrible way to run a society.
Show threadDrew Kadel
@Popehat It's quite possible that the school district fucked up in structuring its policies. It sounds very much that the guy brought the hat in order to be provocative, and if others did counter provocations, the whole thing could quickly blow up. The woman's mistake was to cry, rather than wearing a shirt insulting to Republicans?
Jan 14, 2023 at 8:00pmWeb