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Tea Party Logo: Lifted From Communist Designs

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Salamantis9/14/2009 10:14:41 am PDT

re: #199 greygandalf

Is it necessarily a bad thing to use leftist symbols against leftists?

According to Michel De Certeau (The Practice of Everyday Life, 1984), the appropriation of the symbols of institutions in order to semiotically imbue them with meanings that subvert their original intent is called ‘poaching.’

/See the “Mickey Rat’ campaign against Disney Corporation.