Fringe or not, minority or not, the logo has a documented unsavory connotation.
Not changing it is in-your-face risk-taking, which sort of correlates with narcissism and behavior which violates one of our culture’s foundational tenets: sex with children is off-limits.
Changing it with an appropriate admission of ignorance, not so much.
BTW, I question both ‘fringe’ and ‘minority’. I am amazed at the people I know of all ideological persuasions, most of them highly logical and successful in various STEM endeavors, who are aware and troubled by the connections that have come to light. Millions are following this across the globe and most of them want answers. The people I know are capable of discarding the click-bait on You Tube. This is evident from the comments, even allowing for shills and trolls.
Voat spends inordinate amounts of time/space tamping down the hysterical and clueless. This citizen investigation seems, to me, to be refining itself. Someone posts garbage, they are corrected. Nothing wrong with that, either.
“This citizen investigation seems, to me, to be refining itself. Someone posts garbage, they are corrected.”
I’ve seen no evidence of that from what keeps getting posted on FR. They’re stilling alleging that this “pizza code” has some legitimacy, when the only source they can find for it is an anonymous 4chan post. Some people are still posting that this “code” came from the NYPD, when that allegation came from a hoax news website that was revealed as fake the same day it was posted.
A few days ago they tried to quote a years-old Breitbart tweet out of context to make it seem like it had some connection to this lunacy, when if simply looked at in context, it clearly referred to a Project Veritas investigation. Someone else posted a link to Adam Carolla supposedly talking about the “pizza code”, but if you simply watch the video, he says nothing about a “pizza code” at all.
If anything, the “pizzagate” crowd seems less skeptical and self-critical than the average conspiracy crowd, and that is pretty hard to accomplish.