The peace symbol is ubiquitous on tween clothing these days. There’s nothing “politically charged” about it. The peace symbol, to kids these days, means nothing more than “peace is good” (it is, isn’t it?) and they think they look cool because it looks like the ‘60s (which they barely know about). It’s an innocent style fad, like tie dye (which has also come back in style). People need to stop trying to make it something it’s not. (And, yes, I know the symbol originally was anti-nuclear but that was a UK-based group that is barely known in the US and if you asked most Americans about the peace symbol they would make no such political association).
You ever heard of Vietnam? The footprint of the chicken was used in the late '60s and early '70s to denigrate our troops. The CND adopted it in 1982.
My 15 year old wore a peace sign necklace in her freshman picture..i was appalled. But a month later she was helping me at Republican HQ with the campaign...so - you’re right.
No reason to smear the kid by anybody - FR should be better than that. I think the mom should not have let her worn it, but I doubt she was making a statement.