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A reader and viewer of Indoctrinate U recently wrote to me asking about a t-shirt I wore in the film: “I caught a glimpse of one of the t-shirts you were wearing, but didn’t really get the whole thing. It looked like it had a Republican elephant on it with a circle and a line through it. What was it really?”

I wrote back:

You correctly identified the t-shirt. It had the Republican Party logo with a circle-slash through it, and below that the text: “I Hate Republicans.”

For a while during the shooting, I wore a series of shirts deliberately intended to help me blend in to the environment, similar to the way that some species camouflage themselves.

The shirts (two more of which are shown in the attached photos: a CCCP shirt with the Soviet hammer and sickle, and a Joseph Stalin t-shirt) were originally part of an experiment that was intended to be a scene in the film. I wore different politically-themed t-shirts around campus and tried to capture various reactions. We did get a number of under-the-breath comments disparaging my “Viva la Reagan Revolucion!” t-shirt done in the iconic Che style and my “Proud Republican” t-shirt, but unfortunately, we had trouble finding the right mic setup to reliably capture such comments. So we pretty quickly scrapped the idea.

But after I realized that certain t-shirts granted me better access to the campus, I kept wearing those ones around.

Speaking of t-shirts, we’ve now got a few available over at the Indoctrinate U store, where we’ve just added a bunch of Indoctrinate U gear.

However, I should warn you in advance that these shirts probably won’t grant you better access on campus. Quite the opposite, possibly.

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Hat Tip: Evan Coyne Maloney

My friend Evan Coyne Maloney personally interviewed Michael Moore a few years back and asked him if his documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, which slammed President Bush, should be considered a campaign ad and therefore subject to campaign finance rules. Of course Michael Moore said no, “that his film should be treated like an op-ed in the paper.”

“But now that there’s a new film about Hillary Clinton, all of a sudden, campaign finance laws do apply to political perspective films…”

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