“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” (1918) Theodore Roosevelt
My father, a WW II vet, used to call it the CHICKEN”S FOOT.
I could give a rat’s ass about the peace symbol.
However, whenever a smelly hippy flashes the VICTORY sign, as immortalized by Winston Churchill, and claims it as a “peace sign”, I get very, very angry.
Oh, you mean the upside-down chicken’s foot?
I am not a veteran, but I have always and will always find the so-called “peace symbol” offensive.
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It reminds me of the pot smoking hippy crowd who have been mind raped by college professors. This group exercises their free speech rights often but would rather surrender to communism or socialism than serve their country to protect this right. Essentially, they take up air and contribute nothing to society.
I’m not.
Christians find this symbol very offensive, if they know from whence it comes.
PEACE SYMBOL or NERO’S CROSS: A broken, upside-down cross. To Roman emperor Nero, who hated and persecuted the early Christians, it meant destruction of Christianity. Revived in the sixties by hippies and others who protested nuclear weapons, Western culture, and Christian values, it now symbolizes a utopian hope for a new age of global peace and earth-centered unity. But many of heavy metal rock fans would agree with Nero and use it to mock Christ and His followers.
Source: http://www.radioliberty.com/Symbolsandtheirmeaning.html
It isn’t the symbol in itself, it it is how it is used. First, it assumes that only those special hippies who wear it want peace (which we know is false). They just aren’t willing to do what is necessary for peace. To them, it means surrender.
They lie and say we are ‘for war’ and they are ‘for peace’. That is a simpleton approach. They just want an absence of conflict (unless they are in charge of course). They want to use it as a symbol of taking the high moral ground, when in reality, it is nothing more than symbolism over substance. They would let people die under the thumb of tyrants all over the world just so they can play the moral high ground. They aren’t willing to do the dirty work it takes to truly have peace, they just want to throw out their hippie slogans and wish it all better.
So, in summation, it isn’t the symbol itself, frankly, these days it is as common as the Nike Swoosh with the same meaning to most- it however, is how people use that symbol and the real message they want to send (hint, it isn’t one of peace.)
History of the “peace” symbol.
It is a neutering unilateral surrender sign on one hand, a militant refusal sign on the other. Neither are mainstream nor reasonable courses of action or belief.
Beat your sword into a plowshare and you'll be a servant farmer for those that did not.
It reminds me of ‘useful idiots’ and I am offended by what the people behind it did to my country.
My uncle - three tours of Nam - taught me the first rule of war.
1. Eliminate those around you who will get you killed.
He may have been including the peace symbol folks in that group.
The kind of holier than thou peace-mongering that excuses evil, chastises the brave, and invites utter ruin at the hands of those who will savagely abuse us.
I’m a veteran, but no combat exposure.
I don’t associate the peace sign with anything other than a wish for peace. Who wouldn’t want that, (all things being equal)?
There was a time I found hippies amusing, now I completely detest them. But to me, they haven’t taken ownership of the peace sign, nor do they own the idea of peace. They’re just dirty, lazy, traitorous scum.
People who not only won’t carry their load but expect me to pay their way offend me. The ‘peace symbol’ offends me about as much as cuss words written in Mandarin Chinese - in other words, not at all.
PEACE, to be meaningful, must be the handmaiden of FREEDOM.
A man’s body may be at peace in the absence of war, but his soul cannot be at peace in the absence of liberty.
Having been a teen in the 60's, I remember that it was the symbol of those that spat on soldiers.
It pisses me off because most of the people wearing it have no idea how to achieve it.
Also, the peace symbol to me now stands for the hypocrisy of the left.
It’s at peace symbol wearing leftist’s protests where windows are broken, cars are burned, property is destroyed, and rocks are thrown at police officers.
Contrast that with conservative protests, such as the Tea Parties, where views and calls for change are peacefully expressed.