[Lurker]

Note to self. Wear MAGA hat everywhere everyday.

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[NFHale]

Guy sounds like a real p*ssy. Hope he doesn’t try to reproduce.

Triggered by a hat?

Gee.. wonder what he’d do if I gave him the middle finger while wearing a MAGA hat?

[fortes fortuna juvat]

Note to self. Wear MAGA hat everywhere everyday.
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I have 3 styles of KAG Trump 2020 hats, and I wear one of them everyday in restaurants, malls, and on the streets. And almost everyday I have one or more people comment that they like my hat. No one has so far has said anything derogatory. Moreover, I’m beginning to see an increasing number of others wearing their Trump hats. In my view, wearing Trump hats and other apparel provides encouragement to his more timid supporters.

[heartwood]

...I’m no longer capable of being curious or compassionate for all the experiences that make this man who he is: a human (like me) desperately trying to belong and survive, who (like me) is socialized by complex forces outside of his awareness and control, and who (like me) may feel fear, grief, powerlessness or shame hiding under his armor of anger.

Instead I slip into a false refuge of certainty. I know this guy — he’s a fascist, racist, misogynistic, homophobe.

She acknowledges her "false refuge of certainty, and that the man is a fellow human.

But implied is that "fear, grief, powerlessness and shame" is what drove this man into the Trumpian embrace, and stated without question is that the MAGA hat is "an armor of anger."

"What builds teams is a feeling of safety." How safe do any academic peers or students in another political camp feel around our author? Or does the question never arise?