{"id":39290,"date":"2020-07-06T13:45:27","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T17:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39290"},"modified":"2020-07-06T13:45:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T17:45:27","slug":"the-cancel-culture-is-getting-absurd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39290","title":{"rendered":"The Cancel Culture Is Getting Absurd"},"content":{"rendered":"

I knew things were getting out of hand when a mob tore down the statue of Frederick Douglass in Rochester, New York, on Sunday. Now they are coming for Hawaiian shirts. On July 1, Newsbusters<\/a> posted the story.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/em> has identified a new villain in their insane cancel culture wars. Hawaiian shirts. I kid you not.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Monday, freelancer Nathan Taylor Pemberton targeted Hawaiian shirts because some undesirable people\u00a0wear them. His warning about the dire associations connected with that ubiquitous article of clothing came in “What Do You Do When Extremism Comes for the Hawaiian Shirt?”<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of the most discussed street styles of the spring: tactical body armor, customized assault rifles, maybe a sidearm and helmet, paired with the languid floral patterns of a Hawaiian shirt.<\/strong><\/p>\n

While it\u2019s not uncommon to see heavily armed white men toting military-grade gear on American streets, the addition of the Hawaiian shirt is a new twist. It turned up in February at gun rights rallies in Virginia and Kentucky, then in late April at coronavirus lockdown protests in Michigan and Texas.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Think of the shirts as a campy kind of uniform, but for members of extremist groups who adhere to the idea of the \u201cboogaloo\u201d \u2014 or, a second civil war in the United States. If that sounds silly to you, consider that these groups settled on the Hawaiian shirt thanks to a string of message board in-jokes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article explains:<\/p>\n

Ah! So now we get to the source of leftist antipathy towards Hawaiian shirts. They somehow interpret it as a symbol of American colonialism in Hawaii although ironically it is a big source of textile employment for many Hawaiians as well as worn by many of them although they refer to them as “Aloha shirts.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

Sigh! To paraphrase Sigmund Freud: Sometimes a Hawaiian shirt is just a Hawaiian shirt. In fact that is what is should be, always.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wonder when wearing sneakers is going to become a problem.<\/p>\n

\n
\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I knew things were getting out of hand when a mob tore down the statue of Frederick Douglass in Rochester, New York, on Sunday. Now they are coming for Hawaiian shirts. On July 1, Newsbusters posted the story. The article … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12676,2382,12675,34,2673],"class_list":["post-39290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cancel-culture","tag-frederick-douglass","tag-hawaiian-shirts","tag-new-york-times","tag-newsbusters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39291,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39290\/revisions\/39291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}