Fascist fashion betrays it's own point
03/30/09
While on my way to grab some lunch in Chicago's Ogilvie Train Station, I came across not one, but two different individuals with the appropriate number of firing synapses to think that these t-shirts were clever.
The first was adorned with this logo:
And the second was even less subtle:
Now that we're 50+ days in the age of "hopechange", I'm glad to see that these individuals have discovered the wherewithal to move on. Oy vey...
What is probably most entertaining to me about these t-shirts is that their very existence and the fact that I came across the individuals wearing them in a public place like a train station manifestly proves just how incorrect and illogical they are.
It's precisely because George W. Bush was not a malevolent Hitlerian dictator that such fashion was so en vogue on the left for so much of the last eight years. There weren't too many people to be found in 1933 Berlin with "Hitler is a warmonger" bumper stickers or hoodies. Throngs of people didn't congregate in front of the German halls of power to protest the nation's military buildup to be greeted only by a fawning media eager to fall all over themselves to give their cause press. And that's precisely because any individual daring to do so would have been snatched up by the aforementioned SS and imprisoned, most likely never again to be heard from.
These people can make these positively asinine, historically and politically inaccurate statements exactly because George W. Bush really was not a frightening and malevolently all-powerful, iron-fisted rule.
The points these t-shirts are making are so backwards, they actually serve to disprove themselves.
And that really says a lot about level of understanding and comprehension of those sporting them.