Social Questions
At HATESHIRT, we believe that anyone that dislikes you because of your views, or more importantly, because you dared to express them, is no friend.
As the bright have noted, by this definition most Progressives are not your friends — or they won’t be, as soon as they see you in a HATESHIRT. Progressives like their echo chambers, and they don’t want you peeing in their zen with your mean, nasty opinions.
You may find out who your real friends are, when you dare to speak your mind. Wearing confrontational clothing is not for the faint of heart. Nor, of course, is anything else interesting or useful. But to borrow a quotation from a famous Progressive: Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.” (Thus proving that quotations, like tactics, have no ideological loyalty.)
Almost certainly. Does that bother you?
Here’s the thing. Your views are not unpopular, they are merely unacceptable to those in power. Specifically, they are unacceptable to most teachers and professors, actors and media personalities, celebrities, politicians, and just about everyone that is cool, hip, “with it,” modern, beautiful, etc.
By wearing a HATESHIRT, you actually are speaking truth to power, rather than miming lies you no longer believe in order to be liked or accepted. While this may not be better for your popularity, it is certainly better for your soul.
Wearing a hate shirt will make you both more popular AND less popular at once. You will become more popular with people who secretly share your views, but dare not say so aloud. You will definitely become less popular with people who not only dislike your views, but don’t think that anyone should be allowed to disagree with Progressivism, whether publicly or privately.
Since this latter group of people includes more than half of the population of the civilized world, we’re sorry, the answer is strictly NO. You will not become more popular by wearing our shirts.
Yes, almost certainly. Within minutes of ordering, your cool points will begin to go up. By the time payment is finalized, you should begin to feel enlightened. Some customers report clairvoyance or special insight, new spiritual talents or revelations, and even visions — all during the process of checkout!
But the real socio-emotional journey begins when you wear your HATESHIRT in public for the first time. You can expect salutations from strangers, dark looks, smiles, laughter. Once in a while you’ll get a glare from a Progressive troglodyte — but, do not regret this. You may be the first witness to address his poor, depraved soul. You may be the seminal influence that causes him to examine his programming, suspect his worldview is a sham, and seek out the truth that will change his life.
We are confident that if LJC had worn a HATESHIRT, things would have gone better for him with the Pharisees, not to mention Pontius Pilate.
In fact, we have collaborated with historians, archeologists and theologians to speculate on what sort of HATESHIRT the Good Lord would have chosen from our copious catalog. See category WWJW (What Would Jesus Wear?)
Like all good ideas, HATE is sticky, and difficult to remove. If you get HATE on your clothing, remove it quickly and burn it. Rinse any exposed skin for 30 minutes, and contact a state propaganda center.
If you get HATE in your mind, however, you cannot be saved. You may be a heretic forever. You may have committed an inadvertent intellectual autogolpe (IIA.)
Therefore, browse our store with care, dear shopper. We cannot be responsible for any changes of heart or mind that you may have while giving careful, thoughtful consideration to ideas that you have always been told are verboten.
No.
We advise you to return your “friends” instead.
Anyway, returning your HATESHIRT will make no difference. Your “friends” will still hate you. Once you reveal yourself as a heretic, as one who rejects the inane zeitgeist, you will be reviled by all except by those few who, like you, have had the courage to question the Progressive catechisms. We encourage you to seek out these others, and keep their company. Encourage each other in your heresy, for the day will come when we Heretics will inherit the Earth. Won’t it be cool to have been one of the first on board? Like being an apostle of Christ, or something.
I have no idea. What is this question doing here?
Legal Questions
A HATESHIRT is a shirt that displays speech that has been or soon will be labeled HATE SPEECH by the non-governmental censors of American culture, such as professors, NGOs like SPLC and ADL and ACLU, actors and media personalities, etc.
Fortunately, in the United States of America, the First Amendment protects nearly all speech, including unpopular speech.
The Cultural Censors (or Ministry of Truth, to use an equivalent term) would like to outlaw or otherwise prohibit speech they disagree with, and preferably banish anyone that even thinks the kinds of things that are printed on HATESHIRTS to a penal colony in Antarctica.
However, this is not likely to happen, since the American public is extremely armed, and when Progressivism becomes violent, the people will likely become very dangerous.
Therefore, wear your HATESHIRT with daring. The Progressive boogeyman can do nothing about it, except wail and gnash its teeth, while it slowly sinks into irrelevance.
Yes!
Proviso: We offer no opinions on the legality of any speech, including the speech displayed on our products.
However, we insist that the best protection against a dictatorship of ideas, such as that arising in America, is a continuously growing volume of dissenting speech — also called “hate speech.”
Totalitarianisms (including American Progressivism) thrive on fear, conformity, popularity, mass propaganda and the stifling of dissent.. DO YOUR PART to thwart the rise of Progressive totalitarianism in America. Buy a HATESHIRT, and wear it!
Nothing.
Well, a quibble: since thought ordinarily precedes speech, technically thoughtcrime precedes the hate speech that expresses it aloud. However, we are not philosophers.
Perhaps now you can stop reading the FAQ and buy a shirt. Nothing you read here will assuage your conscience. Only speaking the truth can do that.
