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Article: You; The T-Shirt Tells the Tale
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 6, 1988
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"Kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out," commands a beret-clad
winged skull pierced by a lightning bolt on Glen Minchillo's black
T-shirt.
"I bought it in 1986 at a Greenbelt gun show," says Minchillo,
23, a Silver Spring construction worker. "I liked the message. It
means, like, kill the commies or whatever."
Minchillo's genocidal skull represents just one species of a new
breed of confrontational T-shirts that at best give the world a
laugh, at worst provoke outrage. These walking billboards advertise
hostility, sexual availability, personal mood and political stance.
Why are so many people using T-shirts to tell the world where
they're at-or want to be?
"It's more acceptable now to ...