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 . . .

…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.
….. 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.
@Popehat Except MAGA isn't a person, it's a political philosophy. And the hat's being worn by a teacher, whose students presumably include people attacked by the MAGA philosophy.
@msbellows It’s the recognized slogan of a candidate. And note that here the hat wasn’t worn in front of students. It was worn to and from a teacher event and taken off at the event.
@Popehat @msbellows oh! That seems to be off limits then. I want to see people wear these things because I want to know what they support. I won’t wear my Joe Biden hat because I no longer think it’s safe. The last election was different in that way too. Nobody put up political signs in my neighborhood.