[–] errihu 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Yeah, it's when you have multiple known symbols together that it becomes a signal. Both triangles and spiral designs are historic art designs that have featured in countless historic tribal art themes - usually meaning mountains. Pandas have achieved status as a symbol of endangered wildlife, China, and conservation efforts. Pizza is a delicious food eaten by many people, as are hotdogs, and tacos, and nuts. But when you start mixing these symbols in close proximity, particularly in ways that seems forced or grammatically weird, it's likely they're being used to signal something unsavory.
I'm worried as someone who is entering the teaching profession that I'll accidentally buy the wrong mass printed shirt or trinket and get branded a pedo because I inadvertently picked the new fad symbol being fixated on. These symbols have passed under our noses for so long precisely because they are innocuous and used by many under innocent contexts. I'm worried that a lot of innocent people with innocuous imagery are going to get torn apart, because quite frankly there are people here who are looking for molesting satanists under every rock and immediately seize upon innocuous use as "proof" of some kind of deep, sinister involvement. One piece of iconography is probably innocuous. Two together is probably a coincidence. Three is enemy action.
[–] HillarysSweatyGash 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
T-minus 5mins until an "alt right activist" shows up to Panda Express with an AR demanding to see the basement.