Gavin McInnes: 'Wearing A MAGA Hat Is Like Being Openly Gay In 1950'

[Initech]

Gavin McInnes, a CRTV host who also runs the Proud Boys hate group whose members are easily recognized in public by their uniform polo shirts, claims that wearing a “Make American Great Again” hat from President Trump’s 2016 campaign is akin to “being openly gay in 1950.”

“Here in New York City, wearing a MAGA hat is like being openly gay in 1950, and I’m not exaggerating,” McInnes said on Tuesday’s episode of his CRTV program. “You will get your ass beat, you will not last at a bar in Harlem—we try it all the time and get booted out. There’s many bars that say, ‘You cannot openly be here.’ If you go into a bar wearing a MAGA hat, people start getting uncomfortable. The bartender will ask you to leave politely and people will yell at you on the street and spit on you.”

“You’re treating us like pedophiles,” he added.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/gavin-mcinnes-wearing-a-maga-hat-is-like-being-openly-gay-in-1950/

It all comes back to pedophiles doesn't it?

[Blue_Adept]

1. Welll, trumps policies or his evangelical backers are all fucking over the children

So yeah, I have no problems with the pedophile label on them.

[lapfog_1]

2. It's a fixation with them... re PizzaGate, 4chan rumors on Podesta and Hillary, etc.

[Initech]

14. To paraphrase a Lewis Black bit from a few years ago:

"It's like playing six degrees of Kevin Bacon, except there's just one degree, and Kevin Bacon is a Satanic Pedophile!"

[Raine1967]

3. Well, Roy Moore is a MAGA guy...

... so the company you keep might be an issue.

[MontanaMama]

4. In all fairness, the MAGA crowd

did support Roy Moore. Just saying... I have no problem shaming deplorables. They've hung their hats (so to speak) on hate, exclusion, misogyny and ignorance. You get what you get so don't throw a fit. They can stew in their own shit as far as I am concerned.

[Mister Ed]

5. No, Gavin, it's like being openly Nazi in 1950. n/t

[ProudLib72]

8. +1

[DBoon]

27. 'Wearing A MAGA Hat Is Like Yelling "Heil Hitler" in 1944"

nt

[ismnotwasm]

6. All MAGAs are hateful bigots by definition

And this asshole thinks he’s oppressed? How typical

[Mister Ed]

9. I'm always amazed, but no longer surprised, by their sense of persecution.

What utter snowflakes these deplorables are.

[Initech]

15. I don't think I've ever seen one Trump supporter out there who isn't a hateful bigot.

If there is that would be an anomaly.

[unblock]

7. More like wearing a certain armband in Europe in the 1930s

[SaschaHM]

10. If only gays in the 1950s had as much power as the MAGA scum do.

Conservatives sure love bitching while they're in power.

[John Fante]

11. No, it's like wearing a KKK hood in 1950.

The difference being that people are less tolerant of that shit in 2018. Lol @ there idiots thinking Trump's "victory" validates then in any way.

Funny, I live in Los Angeles County and I have to see any of these self-described alpha males wearing a MAGA hat.

[Initech]

19. I've seen a few MAGA hats and Trump bumper stickers.

Even a license plate that said "MAGA45". But then again I'm in the much more red and far less tolerant Orange County.

[John Fante]

31. OC is cracking though, so that's good.

Still, it's hard to believe a place so red still exists in coastal California. Such is life.

[Initech]

32. A lot of that has to do with the fact that people here have money.

And a lot of people who I know made a lot of their money through inheritance (and possibly swindling their businesses and cheating the IRS). So a lot of the folks here vote with their wallets than with common sense. It really is infuriating to hear them parrot what they hear on Fox News since most of it goes against their best interests. Which contributes a lot to why we're stuck with creeps like Rohrabacher and Issa.

[peggysue2]

12. Victimhood

It's a Trumpster's favorite defense. In this case, McInnes manages to swipe at gays and draw a dotted line to pedophilia, all the while boo-hooing for his own lame ass.

A good day for the MAGA crowd, living up to their Imposter-in-Chief.

Sad.

[Downtown Hound]

13. Well Gavin, if you had worn a Russian sympathizers hat out in public in 1950

My guess if you wouldn't have been treated very nicely then either.

[Scoopster]

16. Total bullshit lie.

Hater brownshirt thugs like Gavin would be the ones beating on someone who's openly gay in the 1950s.

[lunasun]

17. And you are visiting a bar in Harlem why?

[karynnj]

18. He has to know that wearing that hat in most of NYC is intentionally

asking for people to react. Nothing wrong with it, but his comparison is to a person being who he or she is. They can be pro Trump, without wearing the hat ... unless they WANT to make that stand.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

20. Doesn't this dickhead hipster fancy himself a tough guy? Well go ahead tough

guy let your fascist flag fly!

[gratuitous]

21. Gavin: Being a bigot is a choice

Maybe you need to undergo conversion therapy? You know, get in touch with any vestigial humanity you might have.

[lame54]

22. It's more like wearing a dunce cap

[kacekwl]

24. BINGO n/t

[Initech]

25. /thread

[krispos42]

23. I didn't know wering a Chinese-made red hat with a 2016 political slogan on it...

...was imbedded in your DNA and neural pathways. All the more astonishing because this guy is obviously way older than his hat.

[C_U_L8R]

26. No, it's like wearing a t-shirt in the 1980's

that says "I'm with Stupid" and it points to yourself.

[Gothmog]

28. Boo Hoo

[IluvPitties]

29. Gavin is a perennial loser.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

30. In L A you would definitely be shunned and possibly mocked.

I doubt you would be assaulted. Now if you wore it in certain areas of L A it would be like waving a red flag in front of a bull.

[VOX]

33. One of the most hateful false equivalencies I've ever heard.

If you’re sad about how wearing your piece-of-shit MAGA cap makes everyone hate you, here’s a suggestion: shove it up your bum, and wear it with joy up in there.

Your look-at-me-I’m-a-traitor cap can be easily removed from your pinhead, being gay or a POC cannot. That you equate your Trump-gang-wear anxieties with groups of people who’ve had to fight every day for acknowledgement of their existence is a purely hateful thought. There is NO equivalency there— it doesn’t exist.

Go shit in your hat. It’s gotta be good for something.

[Blue_Tires]

34. Yeah, like the MAGA crowd would ever be seen in Harlem

[NewJeffCT]

35. Gavin - I don't think there are any MAGAs that would have the guts

to go to a bar in Harlem wearing their MAGA hat.

By the way - back in the 1990s, I used to travel all over the northeast to watch basketball games at the high school & college levels. I went to a game once in Harlem with a friend of mine. We were two of a grand total of four white people there in a crowd of at least 500. We never once felt scared or threatened or anything. Never heard a rude comment directed towards my friend of me - though I can't recall if the white ref got booed by either side, but I would expect any ref making a bad call to be booed (Besides my friend and me, one of the three referees was white and one reporter was white) and our car wasn't broken into or robbed or anything like that.

[pnwmom]

36. No, it's like wearing a hat that says HATE. Being openly gay means standing up for LOVE,

no matter who you love.