Given all of the delusional college kids (and the professional instigators training and participating with them) protesting for the Nazi-like Hamas fighters that wantonly murdered innocents on Israeli soil, there has to be tens, if not hundreds of thousands of these keffiyeh.
It’s part of their uniform, dontcha know (emphasis mine)? And guess what? “Uighur Slaves Struggling to Keep Up with Demand for Palestinian Headscarves.”
The Babylon Bee, “the newspaper of record” for anyone with a sense of humor, posed a more interesting thought about the campus demonstrations than anything you can find in the New York Times or Washington Post. The Bee’s headline proclaimed, “Uighur Slaves Struggling to Keep Up with Demand for Palestinian Headscarves.”
Dark humor, indeed. The headscarves, like the masks, serve one obvious function: they hide the faces of demonstrators. That’s why bank robbers wear masks, too. Students know they are breaking the rules, and professional agitators know they are breaking the law, so it’s smart to hide their faces.
But the scarves have one additional advantage that bank robbers’ masks don’t: the keffiyeh is a visible symbol of Palestinian identity. “Pardon me,” they say, “my virtue is showing.”
The Babylon Bee also picked up another interesting point the legacy media missed. The keffiyehs worn on campus today come from China, like so much clothing. Ah, globalization. Palestinians used to produce the scarves themselves, but cheaper Chinese production squeezed them out of the market. The protesters’ attire is a hidden mark of the international trade they loathe.
The symbol of their resistance to “enslaving the Palestinians” was made with slave labor by oppressed people the Chinese government can kill at will, so using the word “genocide” (even as the Gazan population had quickly risen) is a ludicrous claim as it seems that Hamas is the one doing the oppressing (of its Gazan civilians who are fully behind Hamas).
And, of COURSE, in this era of Identity politics, the “protesters” must appear to be part of the Oppressed, so the keffiyehs are unloaded by the box full. And we are back to the Chinese Muslim Uighur slaves again.
But neither the MSM, the pro-Palestinians themselves, the clueless “helpful idiots,” and the low-intelligence college students that know how to yell but haven’t the foggiest what they are protesting other than as a means to quell their boredom and be part of the “cool kids clique.”
The Uighers continue to sit at their sewing machines, working within the capitalistic system Winnie-the-Zi allows for selling rope to the West.
