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In reply to the discussion: The CPAC stage is in the shape of a Nordic rune used by Hitler's SS & white supremacists [View all]drmeow
(5,018 posts)easy to inadvertently do stupid things like that when you are focusing on something else - like when Drake University tried to rebrand itself as D and then launched a promotion/rebranding to highlight the advantages of attending Drake with the bold new logo of D+ (which I suppose is better than if their name had started with f).
However, in this case I personally don't think it is accidentally, at least not wholly. There are design styles that fascists gravitate towards - the Nazis and the Soviets often had similar artistic and architectural styles. Straight lines, hard angles and edges, etc. I don't think someone necessarily selected that symbol for the stage but I do think they were trying to achieve a certain look and feel and likely had a subconscious memory of that symbol along with other similar looks and symbols.