The What Are You Wearing Today (WAYWT) Discussion Thread, Part II

[Tar Heel]

Twilight, The Flathead pink flannel and Raleigh Denim.

 

[sussi]

Jacket: fujito
Tank: vintage military
Belt: sartolane
Jeans: bergandberg
Sneakers: vans
Sunglasses: retrosuperfuture

 

[WBaker]

Casablanca / JCrew / Atha / MMM

 

[Tar Heel]

Shirt: Raleigh Denim, Trousers: Orslow, Boots: Tricker’s

 

[MarkI]

 

[Rookoobay]

I don't know what kind of reaction you are going for with the hat - it is front and center, so let's not pretend it isn't a statement - but frankly I find it reprehensible.

 

[MarkI]

I don't know what kind of reaction you are going for with the hat - it is front and center, so let's not pretend it isn't a statement - but frankly I find it reprehensible.

Would you say the same thing if I was wearing a yarmulke?

 

[Rookoobay]

Would you say the same thing if I was wearing a yarmulke?

of course not. at worst I would possibly question the timing of posting it right now, but would keep that to myself.

 

[MarkI]

Right. You don’t have to say much more than that. I feel sorry for you that you feel that way, but I also won’t engage. Peace and love to all.

 

[StanleyVanBuren]

ah damn I was just about to post my American flag speedo

maybe not

 

[sugarbutch]

I don't know what kind of reaction you are going for with the hat - it is front and center, so let's not pretend it isn't a statement - but frankly I find it reprehensible.

Bruh.

 

[WOVENandSEWN]

Can we leave politics out of the WAYWT thread? Is nothing sacred?

 

[Fuuma]

Can we avoid conflating Jewish identity with a colonial settler apartheid state? It's not like he's wearing a "death to all Palestinians" cap and we're on a friendly fashion forum so let's not assume the worst about him and let's not have a primary antisemitic reaction.

Here's a quote from someone who wears a kippah everyday (Daniel Boyarin), no doubt as a provocation:

"On the stairs of my synagogue, in Berkeley, on Rosh Hashanah this year, I was told that I should be praying in a mosque, and versions of this, less crude perhaps, are being hurled at Jews daily by other Jews. I don't wish to romanticize my situation. It is not I who is suffering; my only personal pain is the pain of living on the margins, and that, too, has its privileges. More piercing to me is the pain of watching a tradition, my Judaism, to which I have dedicated my life, morally disintegrating before my eyes. It has been said by many Christians that Christianity died at Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Sobibor. I fear—G-d forbid— that my Judaism may be dying at Nablus, Daheishe, Beteen (Beth El), and al-Khalil (Hebron.) The violent actions taken in the name of defense may help some Jewish bodies survive (and even that only dubiously, temporarily, momentarily), but they threaten to empty Jewish existence of all meaning, to make hollow the resistance for two thousand years to being dissolved into the majority. If we are not for ourselves, other Jews say to me, who will be for us? And I answer, but if we are for ourselves alone, what are we?"

From the intro to this book:

Border lines. The partition of Judaeo-Christianity. By Daniel Boyarin. (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion.) Pp. xvii+374. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. $38.50. 0 8122 3764 1 | The Journal of Ecclesiastical History |

Border lines. The partition of Judaeo-Christianity. By Daniel Boyarin. (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion.) Pp. xvii+374. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. $38.50. 0 8122 3764 1 - Volume 57 Issue 1

www.cambridge.org

 

[MarkI]

I have worn that hat in multiple fits in the past, as well as another member whose name is escaping me at the moment. Wasnt an issue then, shouldnt be an issue now.

Also, a little backstory regarding the hat and what it represents.

History: The Hebrew Orphan Asylum was a philanthropic organization designed to care for Jewish orphans. The original building was on East 77th Street, but it was the ballfield at the later facility on Amsterdam Avenue and 136th Street that hosted occasional Negro league baseball games. The Asylum also featured their own baseball and basketball teams. In another curious baseball connection, the New York Yankees had originally planned to purchase the Asylum grounds to construct a new stadium in Manhattan, but ended up choosing the Bronx instead for Yankee Stadium when the land deal fell apart.

 

[Rookoobay]

yes, peace and love to all - 100%.

I overreacted. fwiw contextually I have many friends in the Jewish community (one of which took a bullet to save others in a very prominent US synagogue attack), have been to temple a few times this year in celebration, grew up in one of the densest Hasidic communities in the states, etc.

I will leave it at that. If I'm the only one who felt that way upon seeing that hat with no accompanying text, I'll certainly reflect on that.

thanks for that, @Fuuma