The issue, of course, is that appropriation is a real thing and change common and popular perception is symbolism. Red baseball caps have been appropriated by MAGA, and aggressively used to symbolize support for a particular cult.
We’re humans, dude. Everything we do in communication is symbolism, with subtext, connotations, and implications. Red baseball caps symbolize MAGA now to most people in the USA, whether you like it or not.
Difference is that you can wear a non-maga red hat without being considered a trumpet, but you can’t be rocking a swastika without people assuming you’re a nazi
You know, the swastika existed long before Nazis; see https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/卍#Translingual . You associating it with Nazis is a you problem.
The issue, of course, is that appropriation is a real thing and change common and popular perception is symbolism. Red baseball caps have been appropriated by MAGA, and aggressively used to symbolize support for a particular cult.
We’re humans, dude. Everything we do in communication is symbolism, with subtext, connotations, and implications. Red baseball caps symbolize MAGA now to most people in the USA, whether you like it or not.
I had a “super cool” red hat hat, it was of course their trademarked red.
MAGA ruined that for me.
Difference is that you can wear a non-maga red hat without being considered a trumpet, but you can’t be rocking a swastika without people assuming you’re a nazi
The conversation has now come full circle, with the top comment being about assuming the guy in the red hat was MAGA because of the red baseball cap.