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Hyatt calls hate symbols 'abhorrent' after CPAC stage compared to sign used by Nazis
Reuters ^ | March 1, 2021 | by Julia Harte

Posted on 03/01/2021 5:16:58 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON - Hyatt Hotels Corp called symbols of hate “abhorrent” on Sunday after the design of a stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference at one of its hotels drew comparisons to a Norse rune used by Nazis during World War Two.

A photo of the CPAC stage went viral on social media on Saturday, with thousands of Twitter users sharing posts comparing its distinctive design to an othala rune, one of many ancient European symbols that Nazis adopted to “reconstruct a mythic ‘Aryan’ past,” according to the Anti-Defamation League.

The ceiling of the conference room featured a lighting display in the same shape as the stage, according to Reuters photographs.

Hyatt said all aspects of conference logistics, including the stage design, were managed by the American Conservative Union, which organized the conference.

The comparisons were “outrageous and slanderous,” Matt Schlapp, American Conservative Union chair, said in a Twitter post on Saturday. He added the organization had a “long standing commitment to the Jewish community” and that the conference featured several Jewish speakers.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cpac; cpac2021; journalism; mattschlapp; media; mediawingofthednc; press
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To: Thommas

Oh, I see, it’s the stage itself. Good grief..


21 posted on 03/01/2021 5:30:50 AM PST by Thommas (The snout of the camel is in the tent.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Did you know the Nazis used the Arabic number system???

ANYONE WHO USES THAT NUMBER SYSTEM IS A NAZI!!!!


22 posted on 03/01/2021 5:30:54 AM PST by Lazamataz (I feel like it is 1937 Germany, and my last name is Feinberg.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Shapes are racist now.....


23 posted on 03/01/2021 5:33:56 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (We are being played by forces most do not understand)
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To: T-Bird45
Norse runes and the use of them by the Nazis likely aren’t even in that person’s normally-accessed knowledge set.

That's not true, because every good Socialist/Globalist knows that Conservative/Patriots every waking moment, and some of their sleeping one's, are either spent coming up with secret ways to convey their racism/sexism/homophobism/etc, or actually putting it in to practice. Look at the recent poll in which Dem voters responded by like 80% that Trump supporters (overwhelmingly Conservative/Patriotic) are the #1 threat to the country. Who, in their right mind, can argue with such the overwhelming mountain of proof that 80% of Dems believe it!

24 posted on 03/01/2021 5:35:28 AM PST by Turbo Pig
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To: PeteB570

Well, it does resemble the “rune”, but it is UPSIDE-DOWN. By imaging a symbol upside-down, it is, in fact a repudiation of the symbol, such as a upside-down cross for satanism.

But I think the stage managers and designers didn’t even know about the symbol in the first place, much like a Navajo rug-weaver weaving designs into a traditional rug that to us look like a bunch of swastikas.

It is the Beholder who sees things in symbols that aren’t intentional.


25 posted on 03/01/2021 5:36:50 AM PST by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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To: Brooklyn Attitude; T-Bird45
Who in their right mind is busy looking for obscure Nazi symbols in a stage arrangement?

Maybe some lefty working at a design company was peeved at having to work on the CPAC design, until they found a Nazi rune design and made that the stage layout, then notified the press.

26 posted on 03/01/2021 5:38:06 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: Michael.SF.
These people are absolutely deranged.

Speaking of deranged, I was watching El Dorado, a John Wayne flick, over the weekend. There's a scene near the end where the Duke and Robert Mitchum were discussing their next move against the bad guys. Mitchum said (paraphrase) "we got one old Indian fighter, one guy with a shotgun and two cripples", referring to himself and Wayne. They bleeped "cripples". Played it back to be sure I heard what I didn't hear and yep, they bleeped "cripples"! (I believe it was on AMC)

People have gone insane!

27 posted on 03/01/2021 5:38:50 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (BOYCOTT The NFL, MLB, NBA, NASCAR & Faux Snooze! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper! )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Silencing opposition and burning books is what the Nazis did and so are the Dems.


28 posted on 03/01/2021 5:39:42 AM PST by bray (Pray for fake President Biden)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s three bordered squares set up with two walls blocking the left and right square. It’s a simple geometric design.

Of course the lunatics think it’s a coded message. That’s how lunacy works


29 posted on 03/01/2021 5:43:12 AM PST by Bogey78O (So far so good.)
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To: oldernittany

Hyatt also trying to have it both ways - but at least these days they DID let them have it! An unbelievable statement in in it’s own right that you even have to say that in America!!


30 posted on 03/01/2021 5:44:03 AM PST by ldish (WAS Jan 6th-Last OPP? NO-but we CONSERVATIVES now know we should've been there!)
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To: gimme1ibertee
There are a few


31 posted on 03/01/2021 5:44:11 AM PST by jpsb
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To: Gay State Conservative
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32 posted on 03/01/2021 5:45:31 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Turbo Pig

“Who, in their right mind, can argue with such the overwhelming mountain of proof that 80% of Dems believe it!”

Don’t you find it scary to be able to “understand” lefty “logic” like that?


33 posted on 03/01/2021 5:46:42 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

All this caterwalling by the Left is laughable. They are the party that literally Booed God and Jesus at their national convention in 2012. They can stfu.


34 posted on 03/01/2021 5:46:43 AM PST by SueRae (An administration like no other.)
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To: Bogey78O

Sorry... I meant three bordered squares set against a fourth bordered square.

If it wasn’t for the carpet pattern, it wouldn’t be remarkable.


35 posted on 03/01/2021 5:47:35 AM PST by Bogey78O (So far so good.)
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To: DoodleBob

“Maybe some lefty working at a design company was peeved at having to work on the CPAC design, until they found a Nazi rune design and made that the stage layout, then notified the press.”

I think you may be swerving perilously close to the truth.


36 posted on 03/01/2021 5:49:16 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Doesn’t the comparison more closely fit those “ribbons” used to show solidarity or concern for various causes, too?


37 posted on 03/01/2021 5:50:17 AM PST by MortMan (Shouldn't "palindrome" read the same forward and backward?)
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To: left that other site; SunkenCiv; Liz; MHGinTN
Oh, so turning a symbol upside down - like Biden-Harris' Secretary of State did during his OFFCIAL video to the Mexican government displaying the Mexican flag upside down - is a recognized, official way to repudiate that symbol and all it stands for?
38 posted on 03/01/2021 5:50:55 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

"O tay!"


39 posted on 03/01/2021 5:51:31 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Republicans are the court jesters in the kingdom of liberalism)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Hyatt calls hate symbols 'abhorrent'...


40 posted on 03/01/2021 5:51:52 AM PST by Magnatron
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