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Nyet3/03/2021 5:59:35 am PST

re: #106 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

I’m going to argue that one. Given the conservatives’ history with Nazis, it was always plausible that there was some level of approval of an outright Nazi symbol within CPAC. However, that plausibility went down over time as more facts were uncovered - as is the case with most CT’s; however, the ones we label “conspiracy theories” don’t usually start with any plausibility to begin with. Now the matter is officially settled, and I’ll be the first to admit that I was wrong and that there was no intent and chalk it up to a common phenomenon, which is that it’s incredibly hard to take a look at a design and search for all plausible ways in which it can be viewed in a negative light.

It wasn’t at all plausible that the CPAC leadership intended it as such (which was the CT). Not only because skinhead-like folks are not their proven TA (the fact of them banning folks like Fuentes and McInnes directly speaking against the CT), but rather because there was no way they would signal to the skinheads without alerting everyone else and creating a distracting shitstorm they did not need, and they knew it perfectly.

It was only plausible that some lower-level Pepe there did that as a prank, but that’s not what the CT was about.